Rediscovering Modern Concepts
While reflecting critically on the historical limitations of modern concepts in general, we pursue to rediscover among them those that still hold potential to contribute to civilizational transformation.
Concepts and Values
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ConceptsandValues
Our aim is to discover and bring to light
new potential Leitbegriffe (or key concepts) and alternative values that will help guide civilizational transformation.
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Concepts and Values
FUTURISTIC TURN
OF K-HUMANITIES
Our aim is to discover and bring to light new potential Leitbegriffe (or key concepts) and alternative values that will help guide civilizational transformation.
New Leitbegriffe
We endeavor to discover and bring to light concepts or values that possibly can take the status of new Leitbegriffe in light of civilizational transformation.
Revisiting Traditional Concepts
We widely reassess traditional values or concepts that originated in pre-modern East-Asia including the Korean Peninsula with a particular focus on their latent capacity to promote civilizational transformation.
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# Civilizational Transformation# Leading Concepts# Alternative Values# Conceptual History
Building on past scholarship of conceptual history in Korea; however, taking, at the same time, a ‘futuristic turn’ the urgent needs of civilizational transformation dictates, this team works to contribute to clarifying the ideological and theoretical foundations of K-Humanities.
Research Plan
Research Content and Plan
Research Goal 01
Research Goal 1
Selecting and Classifying the Concepts under Study
- Selecting and classifying three sets of concepts: the modern Leitbegriffe most answerable for the present civilizational crisis; candidate Leitbegriffe that deserve fresh attention for their potential contribution to civilizational transformation; and traditional values or concepts of East Asia, particularly Korea to be revisited as resources for the transformation
Research Goal 02
Research Goal 2
A Critical Reassessment of Modern Leitbegriffe
- Taking as the criterion the potency for civilizational transformation, examining the limitations of the modern Leitbegriffe; at the same time, seeking the possibility of their ‘regeneration’
Research Goal 03
Research Goal 3
Revisiting Traditional Value or Concepts of East Asia including the Korean Peninsula
- Among traditional values and concepts particular to East Asia, particularly the Korean Peninsula, recovering those equipped with potential to resolve the present civilizational crisis, and seeking ways to universalize them through comparison with modern Leitbegriffe