Jun-Hyeok Kwak
JUN-HYEOK KWAK is Yixian Professor of the Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University. And he is the Head of Political Philosophy and Ethics at the Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai). He completed his Ph.D. studies at the University of Chicago in 2002. His research interests lie at the crossroads of political philosophy from Socrates to Machiavelli, contemporary political theory, and comparative philosophy. He has published numerous articles and books in various languages, including “Individuality with Relationality” (Philosophy East and West 2023), “A Confucian Reappraisal of Christian Love” (Religions 2023), “Confucian Role-Ethics with Non-Domination: Civil Compliance in Times of Crisis” (Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 2022), “Global Justice without Self-centrism” (Dao 2021), “Deliberation with Persuasion: the ‘Political’ in Aristotle’s Politics” (AJPS 2021),《西方政治哲学导论》(中国社会科学出版社, 2023), Modernities in Northeast Asia (edited book, Routledge 2023), Machiavelli in Northeast Asia (edited book, Routledge 2022), and Global Justice in East Asia (edited Book, Routledge 2021). Currently, he is writing his forthcoming monograph, Machiavelli and Republican Leadership: Conflict, Innovation, and Education of Potential Tyrants (Routledge, forthcoming, 2005), and he is serving as General Editor of the Routledge Series of Political Theories in East Asian Context and co-editor of Journal of Social and Political Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press).
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of making a discursive stance between states without a central hegemon.
countries, we will shed light on the similarities and dissimilarities between the different experiences in Northeast Asia which ultimately challenge the dominant approach that attributes the various receptions of Strauss in Northeast Asia solely to sociopolitical circumstances. Third, readdressing the central themes of Strauss with the tension between philosophy and society, we will investigate the possible transcultural appeal of Strauss’s political philosophy to Northeast
Asian societies.
of making a discursive stance between states without a central hegemon.
countries, we will shed light on the similarities and dissimilarities between the different experiences in Northeast Asia which ultimately challenge the dominant approach that attributes the various receptions of Strauss in Northeast Asia solely to sociopolitical circumstances. Third, readdressing the central themes of Strauss with the tension between philosophy and society, we will investigate the possible transcultural appeal of Strauss’s political philosophy to Northeast
Asian societies.
As addressed in this book, the implications of relationality go beyond a Eurocentric binary of Western individualism and non-Western collectivism. Instead, the contributors seek to establish an appropriate discursive stance for understanding and deliberating over relationality across cultural boundaries. Through an investigation of the theoretical and practical meanings of relationality across East and West, it offers possible frameworks for reconciling the emphasis on individual choice in modern Western social and political philosophy with the amorphous dynamics of relational morality in non-Western philosophical discourses.
Examining relationality in practical forms and culturally-situated contexts, rather than positing an essentialist view of the relational self, this book will be of interest to scholars in political philosophy, intellectual history, contemporary political theory and Northeast Asian regional studies.
to the present history of Northeast Asia, this book explores a better East-
West dialogue through which Machiavelli’s political philosophy can be
appropriated properly in Northeast Asian practices.
First, comparing the receptions of Machiavelli in Europe with the early
introduction of his texts in Northeast Asia, it investigates what has been
missing from the reception of his ideas in Northeast Asia. Second, examining
the imperative issues which haven’t been construed appropriately even in
recent reinterpretations of Machiavelli’s political philosophy in Northeast
Asia, it searches for a direction of East-West dialogue through which
Machiavelli’s political philosophy is not inordinately contextualized within
the sociopolitical demands of Northeast Asian societies in accordance with
time and place. Third, given the continuing interest in Machiavelli’s political
realism, it examines the different conjunctions of his political realism with
diverse traditional and contemporary political thinking in Northeast Asia.
This book will be attractive to scholars in political philosophy, history,
political theory, comparative philosophy, and area studies focused on East
Asia, as well as scholars working in the field of comparative literature.