TY - BOOK ID - 33057303 TI - The Confucian Political Imagination PY - 2018 SN - 331974898X 3319748998 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Confucianism and state. KW - State and Confucianism KW - State, The KW - Philosophy, Asian. KW - Political theory. KW - China-History. KW - Non-Western Philosophy. KW - Political Theory. KW - History of China. KW - Asian philosophy KW - Oriental philosophy KW - Philosophy, Oriental KW - Administration KW - Civil government KW - Commonwealth, The KW - Government KW - Political theory KW - Political thought KW - Politics KW - Science, Political KW - Social sciences KW - China—History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33057303 AB - This book critically examines the Confucian political imagination and its influence on the contemporary Chinese dream of a powerful China. It views Confucianism as the ideological supplement to a powerful state that is challenging Western hegemony, and not as a political philosophy that need not concern us. Eske Møllgaard shows that Confucians, despite their traditionalist ways, have the will to transform the existing socio-ethical order. The volume discusses the central features of the Confucian political imaginary, the nature of Confucian discourse, Confucian revivals, Confucian humanism and civility, and the political ideal of the Great Unity. It concludes by considering if Confucianism can be universalized as an ideology in competition with liberal democracy. ER -