Machiavelli in Northeast Asia

ISBN-13: 9781032256917 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 240 str.

Opis

Analyzing the multifaceted receptions of Machiavelli from early modernity to the present history of Northeast Asia, this book explores a better East-West dialogue through which Machiavelli’s political philosophy can be appropriated properly in Northeast Asian practices.

Spis treści

Part I: General Overview.  1.Machiavelli and Northeast Asia.  Part II: Three Imperative Issues in Northeast Asia.  2.Machiavelli’s Republicanism.  3.Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Prudential Political Realism.  4.The Book of Lord Shang Compared with Machiavelli and Hobbes.  Part III: Receptions of Machiavelli, West & East.  5.Machiavelli’s Fortune Lines of Reception of his Works in Europe.  6.The Introduction of Machiavelli’s Works and Thoughts into China.  7.Machiavelli and the Intellectuals of Modern Japan.  Part IV: Reinterpreting Machiavelli in the Northeast Asian Context.  8.Machiavelli and Han Fei Zi – A Comparison.  9.The Prince between Confucianism and Machiavellianism: Inoue Kowashi on Statecraft and Political Morality.  10."Seek Harmony but not Uniformity"—Machiavelli’s Political Thought in the Chinese Context

O autorze

Jun-Hyeok Kwak is Professor of Philosophy (Zhuhai) at Sun Yat-sen University, China.