"One of the first philosophical approaches to the study of Korea’s ethnic nationalism, Christianity, the Sovereign Subject, and Ethnic Nationalism in Colonial Korea traces the impact of Christianity in the formation of Korean national identity, outlining the metaphysical origins of the concept of the sovereign subject.
This monograph takes a meta-historical approach and engages the moral questions of Korean historiography amid the fraught politics of narrating colonialism and the postcolonial period. Indebted to Jacques Derrida’s philosophy of deconstruction and his framework of ""hauntology,"" this monograph unpacks the ethical consequences of ethnic nationalism, exploring how Western metaphysics has haunted imaginations of freedom in colonial Korea. While most studies of modern Korean nationalism and (post)colonialism have taken a cultural, literary, or social scientific approach, this book draws on the thought of Jacques Derrida to offer an innovative intellectual history of Korea’s colonial period. By deconstructing the metaphysical claims of turn-of-the-century Protestant missionaries and early modern Korean intellectuals, the book showcases the relevance of Derrida’s philosophical method in the study of modern Korean history.
This is a must read for scholars interested in Derrida, historiography, and Korean history."
By:
Hannah Amaris Roh
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 250g
ISBN: 9780367775582
ISBN 10: 0367775581
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
Pages: 126
Publication Date: 27 May 2024
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
1. Colonial Modernity, Christianity, and the Case for Deconstruction 2. Protestant Missionary Discourse and the Metaphysics of Ethnic Nationalism 3. Christianity, Enlightenment, and the Quest for Self-Reliance 4. Korean Marxism and the Claim to History as Science 5. Hauntology and the Postcolonial Imagination in Modern Korean Historiography
Hannah Amaris ROH is an independent scholar and cultural critic. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books and Bitch Media. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, on the traditional and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
