Relationality across East and West

Jun-Hyeok Kwak is Yixian Professor of Philosophy at Sun Yat-sen University (Zhuhai), China. His research interests lie at the crossroads of political philosophy from Socrates to Machiavelli, contemporary political theory, and comparative philosophy. Ken Cheng taught at the School of International Studies at Sun Yat-Sen University (Zhuhai), China, from 2020 to 2023. He specializes in European intellectual history, with a particular emphasis on nineteenth-century revolutionary thought.

1. Introduction: Relationality across Western and Non-western Cultures 2. Reconceiving Agency for Relationally-Constituted Human Becomings 3. Relational Autonomy: Individual and Collective 4. The Young Marx and an African Ethic: Two Relational Views of Self-Realization 5. Confucian relationality in dysfunctional family relations: challenging oppression and self-centered individualism 6. Individuality with Relationality: Transvaluation of Confucianism with Mutual Love 7. The Relational Dimensions of Need 8. On ‘Thick’ Confucian Relationality from the Perspective of Contextual Individuality 9. Relationality as Human Condition: On Aidagara or Betweenness against Totalitarianism 10. Public Institutional Action: Individuality, Collectivity, and Interrelatedness