Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Chapter 1 Between Confucianism’s “Treating Family Affectionately” and Kierkegaard’s “Abraham’s Sacrifice of Isaac” 1
5. Chapter 2 Is Human Nature Related to the Family and the Way of Filial Reverence? 11
6. Chapter 3 Anthropology and the Temporality of the Way of Filial Reverence 27
7. Chapter 4 Imagination and Historical Memory 51
8. Chapter 5 Incest Taboos and the Way of Filial Reverence 69
9. Chapter 6 Incest and Plato’s Republic 77
10. Chapter 7 Who Should Care for the Elderly? 97
11. Chapter 8 Parents, Children, and the Confucian Classics 103
12. Chapter 9 Toward a Confucian Special Zone by Way of an Intercultural Dialogue with the Amish 109
13. Chapter 10 Can Confucianism Accept a Matriarchal Family? 127
14. Chapter 11 Family Relations and the Way of Filial Reverence in Harry Potter 149
15. Notes 179
16. Works Cited 193
17. Index 199