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Western-Centrism and Contemporary Korean Political Thought Western-Centrism and Contemporary Korean Political Thought Kang Jung In LEXINGTON BOOKS Lanham • Boulder • New York • London Published by Lexington Books An imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 www.rowman.com Unit A, Whitacre Mews, 26-34 Stannary Street, London SE11 4AB Copyright © 2015 by Lexington Books All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Library of Congress Control Number: 2015941340 ISBN: 978-0-7391-8098-3 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN: 978-0-7391-8099-0 (ebook) TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992. Printed in the United States of America For Hanna F. Pitkin Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xv Notes on Names and Asian Characters xvii Introduction: FromWestern-Centrism to Post-Western-Centrism in Korea 1 Part I: DefiningWestern-Centrism 17 1 Understanding Western-Centrism 19 2 The Historical Evolution of Western-Centrism 49 3 Western-Centrism and Sinocentrism 63 Part II: Western-Centrism inWestern Political Thought 85 4 The Origin and Evolution of Western-Centrism in the History of Western Political Thought 87 5 Western-Centrism in Locke’s Theory of Property 101 6 Western-Centrism in Samuel P. Huntington’s Theory of Democratic Transition 129 Part III: Contemporary Korean Political Thought 163 7 Pristine versus Secondary Modernization 165 8 The Ideological Status of Korean Conservatism 173 9 The Democratization of Korea or the Korean-ization of Democracy 205 Part IV: Beyond the Shadow of Western-Centrism 227 10 The Negative Impact of Western-Centrism in Korean Political Studies 229 11 Discursive Strategies for OvercomingWestern-Centrism 249 12 Beyond the Shadow of Western-Centrism 293 Bibliography 311 Index of Subjects 323 Index of Names 331 vii viii Contents About the Author 335
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