Individualism in Early China: Human Agency and the Self in Thought and PoliticsUniversity of Hawaii Press, 30 cze 2010 - 240 Conventional wisdom has it that the concept of individualism was absent in early China. In this uncommon study of the self and human agency in ancient China, Erica Fox Brindley provides an important corrective to this view and persuasively argues that an idea of individualism can be applied to the study of early Chinese thought and politics with intriguing results. She introduces the development of ideological and religious beliefs that link universal, cosmic authority to the individual in ways that may be referred to as individualistic and illustrates how these evolved alongside and potentially helped contribute to larger sociopolitical changes of the time, such as the centralization of political authority and the growth in the social mobility of the educated elite class. |
Spis treści
Chapter One Individual Agency and Universal Centralized Authority in Early Mohist Writings | 1 |
The Politics of Bodily Conformism | 29 |
Bodily Conformism and Individualism | 54 |
Bodily Agencies vs Claims for Institutional Controls | 77 |
Institutionally Controlled Individualism at the Dawn of a New Era | 104 |
Chapter Six Conclusion | 121 |
A Note on Chinese Individualism Human Rights and the Asian Values Debate | 131 |
Notes | 137 |
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Individualism in Early China: Human Agency and the Self in Thought and Politics Erica Fox Brindley Ograniczony podgląd - 2010 |