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During the decades around 1900, Koreans experienced a world falling apart and the need to quickly build a new one. Intellectuals naturally took centre stage in this era of epistemic paradigm change. This book is devoted to the study of the life and ideas of some of these intellectuals, focussing on how they dealt with the challenges of their times. Where did their respective moral and intellectual stances lead them, and what were the social, economic, and political constraints that bounded their trajectories? Their life stories provide micro-historical insights into a period that has been formative for modern and contemporary Korea, and illustrate the intellectual ferment inherent in an era of crisis and transition.



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Introduction - A New Place in the World: Ch'oe Han'gi's (1803–1875) Encyclopaedic Endeavour for Epistemic Restructuring -Seeking for Agency in Troubled Times: Pak Ŭnsik-"Fight Fire with Fire" — Sin Ch’aeho (1880–1936) and his Anti-Colonial Social Darwinist Nationalism-Hŏ Chŏng-suk – An Intellectual Who Broke the Mold of Custom and Fought for a New Society-Pak In-dŏk: Female Intellectual In-Between – A New Woman Born in 1896-Bibliography

Intellectuals in Between: Koreans in a Changing

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      Publisher Peter Lang AG
      Published 30 December 2022
      ISBN-13 9783631857465
      978-3631857465
      ISBN-10 3631857462

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      Book Synopsis

      During the decades around 1900, Koreans experienced a world falling apart and the need to quickly build a new one. Intellectuals naturally took centre stage in this era of epistemic paradigm change. This book is devoted to the study of the life and ideas of some of these intellectuals, focussing on how they dealt with the challenges of their times. Where did their respective moral and intellectual stances lead them, and what were the social, economic, and political constraints that bounded their trajectories? Their life stories provide micro-historical insights into a period that has been formative for modern and contemporary Korea, and illustrate the intellectual ferment inherent in an era of crisis and transition.



      Table of Contents

      Introduction - A New Place in the World: Ch'oe Han'gi's (1803–1875) Encyclopaedic Endeavour for Epistemic Restructuring -Seeking for Agency in Troubled Times: Pak Ŭnsik-"Fight Fire with Fire" — Sin Ch’aeho (1880–1936) and his Anti-Colonial Social Darwinist Nationalism-Hŏ Chŏng-suk – An Intellectual Who Broke the Mold of Custom and Fought for a New Society-Pak In-dŏk: Female Intellectual In-Between – A New Woman Born in 1896-Bibliography

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