Against Individualism: A Confucian Rethinking of the Foundations of Morality, Politics, Family, and Religion

Lanham: Lexington Books (2015)
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This book is both a critique of the concept of the rights-holding, free, autonomous individual and attendant ideology dominant in the contemporary West, and an account of an alternative view, that of the role-bearing, interrelated responsible person of classical Confucianism, suitably modified for addressing the manifold problems of today

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