Feminist Encounters with Confucius

Mathew Foust, Sor-hoon Tan (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

262 Seiten

2016
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-33210-2 (ISBN)

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This collection contributes to current debates and explores new topics of engagement between Feminism and Confucius’s teachings, variously interpreted. Besides care ethics and role ethics, questions of gender oppression and education, it includes essays on epistemology and environmental ethics.

This work builds on earlier works, which defend Confucianism against charges of sexism and present interpretations of Confucianism compatible with Feminism, but contributors go beyond the much discussed care ethics, and common arguments of how ren (humaneness) can ground an egalitarian humanism that include gender equality. Besides ethics and political philosophy topics, this volume includes discussions in other philosophical areas such as epistemology, metaphysics, and applied philosophy. Through the encounter of Feminism and Confucius’s perspectives, each contributor generates novel answers to the questions addressed. In some cases, authors raise new questions about the chosen topic, inadequacies in how it has been addressed in previous Confucian or Feminist discourse, and/or challenges for either or both Confucianism and Feminism.

Mathew A. Foust teaches Philosophy and East Asian Studies at Central Connecticut State University. He is author of Loyalty to Loyalty: Josiah Royce and the Genuine Moral Life and several articles on Asian and comparative philosophy. Sor-hoon Tan teaches Philosophy at the National University of Singapore. She is editor of Challenging Citizenship and the Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy Methodologies, author of Confucian Democracy and several articles on comparative moral and political philosophy.

Introduction 1
Mathew A. Foust and Sor-hoon Tan
1 Confucius and the Four Books for Women (Nü Sishu «女四書») 14
Ann A. Pang-White
2 Confucian Mothering: The Origin of Tiger Mothering? 37
Ranjoo Seodu Herr
3 Beyond Sexism: The Need for an Intersectional Approach to Confucianism 66
George Wrisley and Samantha Wrisley
4 Confucian Reliability and Epistemic Agency: Engagements with Feminist Epistemology 95
Karyn Lai
5 Role Epistemology: Confucian Resources for Feminist Standpoint Theory 121
Kevin DeLapp
6 How Relational Selfhood Rearranges the Debate between Feminists and Confucians 141
Andrew Komasinski and Stephanie Midori Komashin
7 Confucian Ethics and Care: An Amicable Split? 165
Andrew Lambert
8 Confucian Role Ethics in the 21st Century: Domestic Violence, Same-sex Marriage, and Christian Family Values 190
Sarah A. Mattice
9 Contemporary Ecofeminism and Confucian Cosmology 218
Taine Duncan and Nicholas S. Brasovan
Index 244

Erscheinungsdatum	22.11.2016
Reihe/Serie	Modern Chinese Philosophy ; 12
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	535 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-33210-3 / 9004332103
ISBN-13	978-90-04-33210-2 / 9789004332102
Zustand	Neuware