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978-1-4985-9861-3 • Hardback • June 2020 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
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Lee Trepanier is professor of political science at Samford University.
Introduction: Eric Voegelin and AsiaLee Trepanier Chapter 1: Re-thinking Chinese Ecumene in the Global AgeJarosław Marek Duraj Chapter 2: The Theological Roots of Modern Chinese Political Thought: A Voegelinian InterpretationJin Li and Li Ma Chapter 3: Contextualizing a Crackdown: Voegelin on China's Falun GongCaylan Ford and Stephen Noakes Chapter 4: The Decay of Order for the Progress of an Empire:Shang Yang’s Proposal for Fundamental Reform in the Records of the Grand HistorianJin Jin Chapter 5: Masters of Political Theology: Eric Voegelin and The MongolsJonathan Ratcliffe Chapter 6: Pyramids of Skulls: Unacceptable Violence, Transcendence, and the Image of Timur in the Thought of Eric Voegelin and Contemporary ScholarshipTodd Myers Chapter 7: The Chinese, Japanese, and Korean EcumeneLee Trepanier Chapter 8: Exile and Anamnesis in Selected Works of Natsume SosekiTimothy Hoye
Chapter 9: The Bhagavad Gita: An Incomplete Breakthrough within the Drama of Humanity
Brendan Purcell
Chapter 10: The Figure of Socrates and its Significance for Liberal Education in Asia
John von Heyking
If we cannot rid ourselves of our cultural biases, how can we engage with another culture meaningfully and respectfully? Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought is a welcome contribution to this perennial question. . . I find this book to be a fascinating and stimulating read and would recommend it to anyone who is interested in cross-cultural engagements. . . . I am left with a sense of spiritual optimism after reading Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought.
— VoegelinView
Voegelin’s writings on Asia can be divided into three categories: “China,” “the Mongols,” and “elsewhere in Asia.” The ten chapters in this volume are divided into three parts accordingly. To address Voegelin’s vast comparative civilizational knowledge, the authors were selected from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. They are experts on China, India, Japan, Korea, and Central Asia.
— Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy