Political Theories in East Asian Context
About the Book Series
Political Theories in East Asian Context aims to shed light on the essential theoretical issues spanning East Asia by situating them within cross-cultural frameworks that attend both to the particularity of East Asia as well as the potentially universal patterns arising from East Asia’s current issues that can be studied for the global prosperity. It reconsiders issues like historical reconciliation, nationalism, multicultural coexistence, political leadership, republicanism, and regional integration, with a view to opening the discourse of particular issues to a wider theoretical horizon. Including intellectuals in the field of political science, history, ethnic studies, sociology, and regional studies, this interdisciplinary endeavor is a deliberative forum in which we can reflect on ethical problems facing East Asia in the global era.
Shame Across East and West
1st Edition
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By Jun-Hyeok Kwak, Krista K. Thomason, Ken Cheng
October 28, 2025
In order to gain a deeper understanding of shame and shamelessness as ethico-political phenomena in the contemporary world, this book stages a cross-cultural dialogue that questions and unsettles established views. Expounding and evaluating a range of perspectives on shame, from the ancient Greeks ...
Modernities in Northeast Asia
1st Edition
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By Jun-Hyeok Kwak, Ken Cheng
January 30, 2025
To form a truer portrait of Northeast Asian perspectives on modernity, this book presents a broad range of analyses from philosophical and political-philosophical scholars specializing in the region. The book considers the encounter between "Western" modernity and "Eastern" tradition not as a ...
Relationality across East and West
1st Edition
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By Jun-Hyeok Kwak, Ken Cheng
December 31, 2024
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 ...
Machiavelli in Northeast Asia
1st Edition
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By Jun-Hyeok Kwak
May 27, 2024
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. First, comparing the ...
Environmental Philosophy and East Asia: Nature, Time, Responsibility
1st Edition
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By Hiroshi Abe, Matthias Fritsch, Mario Wenning
January 29, 2024
This book explores the contributions of East Asian traditions, particularly Buddhism and Daoism, to environmental philosophy in dialogue with European philosophy. It critically examines the conceptions of human responsibility toward nature and across time presented within these traditions.The ...
Global Justice in East Asia
1st Edition
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By Hugo El Kholi, Jun-Hyeok Kwak
August 02, 2021
As a fascinating study of global justice in Asia, this book presents a series of contributions reflecting upon the conditions of a greater involvement of East Asian traditions of thought in the debate on global justice.Including chapters on diverse issues such as global social inequalities, human ...
Leo Strauss in Northeast Asia
1st Edition
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By Jun-Hyeok Kwak, Sungwoo Park
June 30, 2021
This book analyzes the reception of Leo Strauss and his political philosophy in Northeast Asia. By juxtaposing the central idea of Strauss’s political philosophy with the question of modernity, the contributors explore the eclectic adaptations of Strauss in Northeast Asian countries as a ...
Religion and Nationalism in Asia
1st Edition
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By Giorgio Shani, Takashi Kibe
April 01, 2021
This book re-examines the relationship between religion and nationalism in a contemporary Asian context, with a focus on East, South and South East Asia. Addressing empirical, analytical, and normative questions, it analyses selected case studies from across Asia, including China, India, Iraq, ...
Inherited Responsibility and Historical Reconciliation in East Asia
1st Edition
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By Jun-Hyeok Kwak, Melissa Nobles
March 28, 2019
Contemporary East Asian societies are still struggling with complex legacies of colonialism, war and domination. Years of Japanese imperial occupation followed by the Cold War have entrenched competing historical understandings of responsibility for past crimes in Korea, China, Japan and elsewhere ...
Republicanism in Northeast Asia
1st Edition
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By Jun-Hyeok Kwak, Leigh Jenco
May 25, 2017
As rapid economic development brings increasing uncertainty in East Asia, interest in a new version of republicanism, termed iscalled neo-Roman republicanism, is growing across the region. Conceptualized as liberty as non-domination, this new form of republicanism has inspired not only Western but ...
Patriotism in East Asia
1st Edition
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By Jun-Hyeok Kwak, Koichiro Matsuda
May 24, 2017
Current territorial disputes between the Northeast Asian countries have stimulated a resurgence of bellicose nationalism, and threaten to upset recent efforts to achieve regional cooperation and economic integration in East Asia. Alongside this, debates over pre-1945 Japanese wartime atrocities, ...
Worlding Multiculturalisms: The Politics of Inter-Asian Dwelling
1st Edition
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By Daniel P.S. Goh
May 24, 2017
Worlding multiculturalisms are practices that infuse our arbitrary cultural lives with new things from other cultures in poetic ways to enable us to dwell and be at home with the complexity of the world. In the context of the crisis of multiculturalism in the West and the growing obsolescence of ...