本书从社会史和知识社会学的视角来审视儒家在中国传统社会中的角色,及其向现代社会转型过程中的历史命运。作者以儒家经典的经学化、孔子的圣人化、儒家的教育选举制度和政治法律制度的儒家化来界定制度化儒家的基本形态。通过对科举制度的废除、现代法律制度和政治制度的建立、新的观念体系的形成等过程的分析,揭 This book examines the role of Confucianism in traditional Chinese society from the perspective of social history and sociology of knowledge and its historic destiny in the process of its transformation to modern society. The author defines the basic form of institutionalized Confucianism through the Confucian classics as Confucian classics, Confucius sagehood, Confucian education election system and political and legal system. Through the abolition of the imperial examination system, the establishment of modern legal system and political system, the formation of a new concept of the process of analysis, exposing