1st Edition

Relationality across East and West

Edited By Jun-Hyeok Kwak, Ken Cheng Copyright 2025
222 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores how the concept of ‘relationality’ can offer a strong basis for cross-cultural dialogue between Western and non-Western traditions of moral and political philosophy. As addressed in this book, the implications of relationality go beyond a Eurocentric binary of Western individualism and non-Western collectivism. Instead, the contributors seek to establish an appropriate... Read more

1. Introduction: Relationality across Western and Non-western Cultures
Jun-Hyeok Kwak & Ken Cheng

2. Reconceiving Agency for Relationally-Constituted Human Becomings
Roger T. Ames

3. Relational Autonomy: Individual and Collective
Anna Stilz

4. The Young Marx and an African Ethic: Two Relational Views of Self-Realization
Thaddeus Metz

5. Confucian relationality in dysfunctional family relations: challenging oppression and self-centered individualism
Sor-hoon Tan

6. Individuality with Relationality: Transvaluation of Confucianism with Mutual Love
Jun-Hyeok Kwak

7. The Relational Dimensions of Need
Sarah Clark Miller

8. On ‘Thick’ Confucian Relationality from the Perspective of Contextual Individuality
Yuzhou Yang

9. Relationality as Human Condition: On Aidagara or Betweenness against Totalitarianism
Hirotaka Sugita

10. Public Institutional Action: Individuality, Collectivity, and Interrelatedness
Emanuela Ceva

Biography

Jun-Hyeok Kwak is Yixian Professor of Philosophy (Zhuhai) at Sun Yat-sen University. His research interests lie at the crossroads of political philosophy from Socrates to Machiavelli, contemporary political theory, and comparative philosophy.

Ken Cheng taught at the School of International Studies at Sun Yat-Sen University (Zhuhai) from 2020 to 2023. He specializes in European intellectual history, with a particular emphasis on nineteenth-century revolutionary thought.