The division system in crisis : essays on contemporary Korea /
Paek, Nak-ch'ŏng,1938-
Berkeley : Global, Area and International Archive, University Of California Press,
c2011.
"This volume represents the first English-language collection by the renowned Korean cultural and political critic Paik Nak-chung. Paik's omnipresent theme is the 'division system' on the Korean peninsula, the peculiar logic by which one nation remains divided into two states. These deeply humanistic essays foreground the needs of ordinary citizens and call for globally relevant solutions to Korea's divided reality."--Publisher's website.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-248) and index.
Making the movement for overcoming the division system a daily practice -- The reunification project in the "age of the IMF" -- National literature, the division system, and overcoming modernity: some fragmentary thoughts -- The ecological imagination in overcoming the division system -- The culture of reform and the division system -- Habermas on national unification in Germany and Korea -- The possibility and significance of a Korean ethnic community of the twenty-first century -- A rejoiner to Kim Yŏng-ho's critique of the discourse of the division system -- The historical significance of the June uprising for democracy and the meaning of its tenth anniversary -- Song Chŏngan's proposals for state building as a doctrine for reunification -- Korean-style reunification and civic participation: South Korea's civil society as the "Third Party" on the Korean Peninsula -- Another moment of trial in implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration -- Reflections on Korea in 2010: trials and prospects for recovering common senses in 2011.
"This volume represents the first English-language collection by the renowned Korean cultural and political critic Paik Nak-chung. Paik's omnipresent theme is the 'division system' on the Korean peninsula, the peculiar logic by which one nation remains divided into two states. These deeply humanistic essays foreground the needs of ordinary citizens and call for globally relevant solutions to Korea's divided reality."--Publisher's website.
Korean reunification question (1945-  )