Hwa Yol Research Articles

진리의 정치성에 대한 현상학적 해명 - 정화열의 “몸의 정치”를 단서로 -

이 글은 ‘내재성’의 철학이 가리키는 ‘미시정치학’(micro-politics) 혹은 “미학의 정치학”(politics of aesthetics) 측면에서 진리의 주체 [“살”(flesh)의 로고스를 통해 자아를 형성하는 주체]를 ‘정치적인 것’과의 연관성 속에서 이야기한 메를로퐁티(Merleau-Ponty)의 현상학으로부터 거시담론을 넘어서는 새로운 해방의 진리를 짚어낸 정화열(Hwa Yol Jung)의 “몸의 정치”(body politics)가 갖는 의의와 과제를 규명하는 한편, 그 과제가 요하는 진리의 특성을 보다 극단화된 “미학의 정치학” 혹은 ‘미시정치학’의 주체[예컨대, “고기”(meat)의 욕망을 통해 자아를 형성하는 주체]의 측면에서 고찰할 것이다. 이를 통해 탈근대의 철학에서도 여전히 유효한 진보의 주체 및 진보의 변증법적 역사성에 대한 논의에 ‘기여한/기여할’ 메를로퐁티 현상학의 주요 단면을 드러내려는 것이 이 글의 목적이다.

Review of Hwa Yol Jung: Transversal Rationality and Intercultural Texts: Essays in Phenomenology and Comparative Philosophy

Review of Hwa Yol Jung: Transversal Rationality and Intercultural Texts: Essays in Phenomenology and Comparative Philosophy

Hwa Yol Jung and the Question of Comparative Philosophy: A Review of Hwa Yol Jung’s Transversal Rationality and Intercultural Texts

In an essay that is now a classic piece in understanding post-modern culture, JeanFrancois Lyotard wrote, ‘‘[e]clecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald’s food for lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and ‘retro’ clothes in Hong Kong’’ (Lyotard 1989: 76). The boundaries have become blurred in both positive and negative senses. Geographical borders have loosened through everincreasing mobility as cultural exchanges become more accessible and are rapidly flowing through electronic exchanges in the cyberspace arena. Almost a quarter century after Lyotard described the present era as the time of eclecticism, the world has become more global, and the demand for cross-, inter-, and multi-cultural knowledge has become stronger than ever. In this context, globalization, cosmopolitanism, and world-citizenship have become some of the expressions with which the present time is defined and distinguished. These concepts, however, have not been newly created in our time, but rather have existed in philosophical discourse for centuries. One recent predecessor of these concepts can be found in modernist universalism, which many of the post-modern thinkers, including Lyotard himself, have rigorously challenged. In what sense, then, can we claim that globalization, cosmopolitanism, and world-citizenship positively define the post-modern era, without recourse to modernist universalism, and without risking the totalitarian tendency with which modernity and modernism has been frequently related? Reading Hwa Yol Jung’s recent publication, Transversal Rationality and Intercultural Texts: Essays in Phenomenology and Comparative Philosophy (Ohio University Press, 2011), one finds that one of the major concerns of the book is

Hwa Yol Jung, Rethinking Political Theory: Essays in Phenomenology and the Study of Politics

Hwa Yol Jung, Rethinking Political Theory: Essays in Phenomenology and the Study of Politics

Phenomenology of the Body and its Implications for Humanistic Ethics and Politics

This paper explores the question of embodiment/disembodiment discussed by Hwa Yol Jung mainly in his recent work, Rethinking Political Theory (1993a) in tandem with an examination of some recent developments in Korean scholarship on the same subject. To sum up, the following three points are emphasized. First, this living body does not exist except in specific modalities. In this sense, Gabriel Marcel's paradigmatic affirmation that I am my body requires an elaboration of the specific modalities of the living body as a being in the world. Second, the way a living body exists is not exclusively mental or physical, but both. In short, it is phenomenal. Third, the point of the whole argument can be summed up as follows: to conceal one's own body is natural, but to forget it is dangerous. The primary task of phenomenology is not to denude human beings, but to reawaken ourselves to the idea that we are beings who live with and through bodies.

Book Reviews : Hwa Yol Jung, The Question of Rationality and the Basic Grammar of Intercultural Texts. International University of Japan, Tokyo, 1989. Pp. x, 174

Book Reviews : Hwa Yol Jung, The Question of Rationality and the Basic Grammar of Intercultural Texts. International University of Japan, Tokyo, 1989. Pp. x, 174

Political Discourse: Explorations in Indian and Western Political Thought. Edited by Bhikhu Parekh and Thomas Pantham. Newbury Park: Sage, 1987. 314p. $27.50.

Introduction - Bhikhu Parekh and Thomas Pantham PART ONE: POLITICAL THEORY AFTER THE LINGUISTIC TURN In the Shadow of Babel - Terence Ball The 'Scientific' Reconstruction of Political Discourse The Power of Language and the Technology of Communication - Hwa Yol Jung A Phenomenological Genealogy Loquocentricity and Democracy - Kenneth Minogue The Communicative Theory of Modern Civil Unity The Liberal Language of Rights - Ronald J Terchek From Locke to Rawls Are Moral Beliefs Ideological Deceptions? - Kai Nielsen 'Objective Significance' in Critical Social Theory - Rajeev Bhargava What is Wrong with Sycophancy? A Caveat on Overrationalised Notions of Political Communication - Upendra Baxi PART TWO: CRITICAL DISCOURSE AND POLITICAL PRAXIS IN THE WEST Conceptions of Security - Christian Bay Individual, National and Global Life-World and Communicative Action - Fred R Dallmayr Power and Communication in Habermas and Luhmann - Michael Greven A Critique of Communicative Reductionism Associational versus Communicative Rationality of Politics - Ernst Vollrath Political Theory and Political Communication - Richard Ashcraft Marxism and Ideology - Sobhanlal Datta Gupta Some Problems of Scientific Communication PART THREE: EMANCIPATORY DISCOURSE AND SATYAGRAHA IN INDIA Traditional Wisdom and Modern Science as Paradigms of Political Discourse - Raghuveer Singh Cultural Frames for Transformative Politics - Ashis Nandy A Credo The Constitution of Indian Nationalist Discourse - Partha Chatterjee Communication Against Communication - K Raghavendra Rao The Gandhian Critique of Modern Civilization in Hind Swaraj Gandhi and the Logic of Reformist Discourse - Bhikhu Parekh Habermas' Practical Discourse and Gandhi's Satyagraha - Thomas Pantham

The Crisis of Political Understanding, by Hwa Yol Jung

<b>The Crisis of Political Understanding</b>, by Hwa Yol Jung

Phenomenology and Politics - Hwa Yol Jung: The Crisis of Political Understanding: A Phenomenological Perspective in the Conduct of Political Inquiry. (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1979. Pp. xvii, 256. $18.00.)

Phenomenology and Politics - Hwa Yol Jung: The Crisis of Political Understanding: A Phenomenological Perspective in the Conduct of Political Inquiry. (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1979. Pp. xvii, 256. $18.00.) - Volume 43 Issue 2

The Crisis of Political Understanding: A Phenomenological Perspective in the Conduct of Political Inquiry. Hwa Yol Jung

<i>The Crisis of Political Understanding: A Phenomenological Perspective in the Conduct of Political Inquiry</i>. Hwa Yol Jung

The Crisis of Political Understanding: A Phenomenological Perspective in the Conduct of Political Inquiry. By Hwa Yol Jung. (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1979. Pp. xvi + 256. $18.00.)

The Crisis of Political Understanding: A Phenomenological Perspective in the Conduct of Political Inquiry. By Hwa Yol Jung. (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1979. Pp. xvi + 256. $18.00.)

Phenomenology and the social sciences

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Existential Phenomenology and Political Theory: A Reader, edited and with an introductory essay by Hwa Yol Jung. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1972. Pp. lv, 444. $3.95

Existential Phenomenology and Political Theory: A Reader, edited and with an introductory essay by Hwa Yol Jung. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1972. Pp. lv, 444. $3.95