Modernities in Northeast Asia

<p>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.</p><p>The book considers the encounter between Western modernity and Eastern tradition not as a simple clash of cultures but as a generative and hybridizing process of negotiation. It examines the concrete manifestations of modernity in various intellectual and political movements that attempted to radically restructure Northeast Asian societies. And through these situated perspectives it rethinks and redefines the idea of modernity itself challenging and presenting alternatives to Western-centric thinking on the topic.</p><p>This book will be of particular interest to political philosophers political theorists comparative philosophers regional specialists in East Asia and all scholars grappling with the perplexities of global modernity.</p>