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Democracy in Contemporary Confucian Philosophy by David Elstein (review)

Democracy in Contemporary Confucian Philosophy by David Elstein (review) BOOK REVIEW Democracy in Contemporary Confucian Philosophy. By David Elstein. London and New York: Routledge, 2015. Pp. xiv + 220. Hardcover $148.00. ISBN 978-0-415- 83440-7. Reviewed by R.A. Carleo III The Chinese University of Hong Kong racarleo@link.cuhk.edu.hk Opening Democracy in Contemporary Confucian Philosophy, David Elstein identifies himself, correctly, to be filling a gap in English-language scholarship (pp. ix, 24). That gap, as the title partly suggests, is a lack of Anglophone accounts of contemporary Sinophone Confucian views of democracy. We have in English a robust discussion of the relationship between Confucianism and democracy, but there is very little connection between that discourse and the same discussion occurring amongst scholars in Chinese. Thus one of the main aims here is to communicate the Sinophone discussion to readers otherwise cut off from it, and to evaluate its arguments. Elstein selects six thinkers from Taiwan and Mainland China for his purposes, chosen in virtue of their historical and philosophical significance and interest (p. ix). By this standard his selection undoubtedly succeeds: About half of the book devotes itself to the historically predominant and philosophically challenging line of New Confucian thought, and these views are then contrasted with those of two very different--and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Philosophy East and West University of Hawai'I Press

Democracy in Contemporary Confucian Philosophy by David Elstein (review)

Philosophy East and West , Volume 68 (2) – Apr 10, 2018

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BOOK REVIEW Democracy in Contemporary Confucian Philosophy. By David Elstein. London and New York: Routledge, 2015. Pp. xiv + 220. Hardcover $148.00. ISBN 978-0-415- 83440-7. Reviewed by R.A. Carleo III The Chinese University of Hong Kong racarleo@link.cuhk.edu.hk Opening Democracy in Contemporary Confucian Philosophy, David Elstein identifies himself, correctly, to be filling a gap in English-language scholarship (pp. ix, 24). That gap, as the title partly suggests, is a lack of Anglophone accounts of contemporary Sinophone Confucian views of democracy. We have in English a robust discussion of the relationship between Confucianism and democracy, but there is very little connection between that discourse and the same discussion occurring amongst scholars in Chinese. Thus one of the main aims here is to communicate the Sinophone discussion to readers otherwise cut off from it, and to evaluate its arguments. Elstein selects six thinkers from Taiwan and Mainland China for his purposes, chosen in virtue of their historical and philosophical significance and interest (p. ix). By this standard his selection undoubtedly succeeds: About half of the book devotes itself to the historically predominant and philosophically challenging line of New Confucian thought, and these views are then contrasted with those of two very different--and

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Published: Apr 10, 2018

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