What is the Matter with Conscience?: A Confucian Critique of Modern Imperialism

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-1-2011

Publication Title

Dao

Abstract

Through a Confucian critique of modern colonial politics and the failure of Western conscience in a number of historical and literary settings (including the Opium Wars, the Holocaust and the modern slavery), the article criticizes the illusory foundation and inexorable predicaments of modern imperialism. The goal of my investigation is to break open the normative authority of modern Western ideologies so as to initiate a new horizon for the hermeneutics of Confucianism and to suggest an alternative vision of humanity and cosmopolitanism in Confucianism. © Springer Science+Business Media B.V.2011.

Volume Number

10

Issue Number

2

First Page

209

Last Page

229

DOI

10.1007/s11712-011-9211-8

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