Sin Chaeho and Nationalist Discourses in East Asia
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The “discourse on East Asia” has become the subject of much recent discussion in various areas of Korean academia. The discourse is linked to the attempt to overcome modernity in its specifically capitalist and Western form in a world where the collapse of socialism as a realistic possibility has left no seemingly viable alternatives to the reign of capital. The fall of socialism, though understood by some as the victory of capitalism, has occasioned a mature reflection on the nature of “modernity” at large, and resulting questions regarding the centrality of the West and its tradition of rationalism stimulated interest in much that had been denigrated under the Western system of values. The effect of all this was the resurgence of interest in the “Orient” or “East Asia.” In Korea, the East Asia discourse awakened the intellectual world from the state of self-imposed exile in which it had been immersed since the opening of the ports, an exile from traditions of East Asia caused by a blind admiration of the West. This discourse has also been expansive enough in range to allow contemplations of a new alternative civilization capable of overcoming the problems associated with capitalism and modernity.
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The “discourse on East Asia” has become the subject of much recent discussion in various areas of Korean academia. The discourse is linked to the attempt to overcome modernity in its specifically capitalist and Western form in a world where the collapse of socialism as a realistic possibility has left no seemingly viable alternatives to the reign of capital. The fall of socialism, though understood by some as the victory of capitalism, has occasioned a mature reflection on the nature of “modernity” at large, and resulting questions regarding the centrality of the West and its tradition of rationalism stimulated interest in much that had been denigrated under the Western system of values. The effect of all this was the resurgence of interest in the “Orient” or “East Asia.” In Korea, the East Asia discourse awakened the intellectual world from the state of self-imposed exile in which it had been immersed since the opening of the ports, an exile from traditions of East Asia caused by a blind admiration of the West. This discourse has also been expansive enough in range to allow contemplations of a new alternative civilization capable of overcoming the problems associated with capitalism and modernity.