• 한국수학사학회지
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.205-223
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• 2021

It has been argued that as for the origin of the Pythagorean theorem, the theorem had already been discovered and proved before Pythagoras, and the historical records of ancient mathematics have confirmed various uses of this theorem. The purpose of this study is to examine the relevance of its name caused by Eurocentrism and the weakness of its use in Korean school mathematics and to seek improvements from a critical point of view. To this end, the Pythagorean theorem was reviewed from the perspectives of the history of mathematics and mathematics education. In addition, its name in relation to objective mathematical contents regardless of any specific civilization and its use as a starting point for teaching the theorem in school mathematics were suggested.

• Architectural research
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.25-32
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• 2010

This paper investigates the development of attitudes to historic conservation from the turn of the nineteenth century when certain theoretical opinions on the protection of buildings began to be developed, through the time when the Venice Charter was established, to recent international trends in historic conservation. This paper also explores the contribution of these attitudes and ideas towards an international approach for historic conservation. This paper demonstrates that the Venice Charter is the acme of progress in the European stance towards restoration, reflecting European values of architecture and its conservation, and thus it is not sufficiently 'universal' to be unequivocally applied in non-Western countries. Secondly, recent international trends in historic conservation subvert the notions of Western cultural hegemony which have permeated global conservation practices, and accept the diversity of value criteria for heritage and its conservation in different cultural context. Thirdly, this paper argues that the conservation approaches in Asian societies need to move further into the retention and extension of the spirit and naturalistic sensibilities inherent in the architecture. Historic conservation is an expression of different cultural values attached to heritage resources by different societies. For conservation program to be effective, conservation should take place within a socio-cultural context.

• Asian review of World Histories
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.235-253
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• 2015

It has been about twenty years since world history in a new sense was introduced to Korean academia. At first, it was the educators who showed a lot of interest in world history. But, before long, world/global history came to exert an important influence on history research and teaching in Korea. Even though certain unfavorable conditions still exist, the need for world/global history is growing and a number of academic institutes and scholars are putting in a great deal of effort to advance it in Korea. Here, we examine the changing meanings of world history on the basis of the history of concepts and provide a general idea of its introduction and diffusion in historiography and history education in Korea.

• 철학연구
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• 제114호
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• pp.241-263
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• 2016

헤겔에게 역사는 철학의 상만이 아니라 철학 체계 전체에 상응한다. 왜냐하면 헤겔의 철학 체계는 정신의 자기 운동에 한 서술이며, 세계사는 정신의 운동을 총체적으로 드러내기 때문이다. 헤겔의 '역사 철학적 관점'은 그의 전체 체계 서술을 관통하며, 이 경향은 후기로 갈수록 더욱더 강화된다. 헤겔의 철학 체계와 역사 서술을 상응하는 관계로 보려는 관점이 타당하다면, '객관 정신'과 '절 정신'의 관계도 세계사의 지평에서 체계적으로 해명될 수 있어야 한다. '객관 정신' 내에서 세계사적 관점은 '정치적 자유'를 기준으로 '근대 유럽 국가'를 정점으로 간주하는 한계를 지닌다. 이에 반해 '객관 정신'으로부터 '절 정신'으로 이행하는 과정에서 '매개항'의 역할을 하는 '세계사'는 민족 국가들의 한계를 인식하고 특수하고 제한된 조건들을 변증법적으로 지양함으로써 주체가 절적 지평으로 도약할 수 있는 계기를 마련해준다. 따라서 헤겔의 철학 체계에서 '세계사'의 고찰을 통해 드러나는 사실은, 예술, 종교, 철학이라는 '절 정신'에서 볼 때 '정치적 국가'는 인류 전체가 지향해야 할 최종 목적이 아니라는 것이다. 이 점에서 헤겔의 역사 철학을 단지 '유럽 중심주의'라고만 이해하는 것은 한계가 있다.

• 한국도서관정보학회지
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.83-107
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• 2006

필자들은 한국 문헌정보학과 정치학의 탈식민화에 대한 문제의식을 공유하고 한국 정치학 분야를 대상으로 탈식민성 담론에 대한 서지연구를 수행하였다. 구체적으로 이 연구는 우리나라 정치학자 중에서 한국의 정치현실에 부응하고 적실성 있는 정치학을 모색하는 학자들의 담론을 추적하고 그들의 연구물을 초록하고, 나아가 이러한 논의를 정리하여 개관하였다. 조사대상은 해방이후 최근까지의 한국 정치학의 탈식민성 담론이다. 이러한 서지 비평연구는 한국 사회과학과 문헌정보학의 소통 가능성을 보여주고 한국 정치학의 탈식민성 담론의 발전에 도움을 줄 것이다.

• 영미문화
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.159-183
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• 2014

This thesis aims to explore another possibility of comparative literature in the light of translation. Comparative literature has been criticized for its Eurocentrism to attempt to assimilate all differences from other cultures and national literatures into the frame of the Western. On the other hand, it has been haunted by the anxiety of "unhomliness", which means it doesn't have a stable and definable terrain as an independent disciplinary. However, it can offer the possibility to overcome its limitation and thematize in- betweenness of diverse terrains due to its fluid and ambiguous position and identity of discipline. When it deals with the issue of in-betweenness, 'the Untranslatable' can be an helpful apparatus to analyze comparative literature through translation theories. Along with the recent change in the study of comparative literature under the influence of transnationalism and hybridization, the role of translation which has been disregarded for a long time is being reevaluated. Translation functions to transfer literary works beyond boundaries of languages, whereas it visualizes incommensurable differences through the failure of finding ultimate equivalences between languages and arriving at one single meaning. The existence of the untranslatable suggests that the attempt to totalize differences is unfeasible, thereby makes comparison unending. Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown can be an appropriate instance that the untranslatable was used as a literary technique to show unreducible alterity of non-Western language and culture.

• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.151-168
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• 2021

Misguided use, manipulation, misappropriation, disruption and mismanagement of Information deeply affects the infosphere as well as the social and moral fabric of a society. Information ethics is an attempt to bring the creation, organization, dissemination, and use of information within the ambit of ethical standards and moral codes. The diverse and inherently pluralistic nature of societies however puts forth an additional demand on us - to come up with an intercultural information ethics. An intercultural ethics which is other-centric, context sensitive and workable without being homogenizing, patronizing and colonizing. An endeavor in that direction has already been made by proponents of intercultural information ethics like: Charles M. Ess, Fay Sudweeks, Rafael Capurro, Pak-Hang Wong, Soraj Hongladarom et al. In our paper, we propose that the kind of ethical pluralism being sought in the domain of information ethics can be attained by having a reappraisal of the current methodological strategies, by casting a critical relook at the Eurocentric ethical model. This paper analyses the current framework of Intercultural Information Ethics. And in an endeavour to move towards an all-encompassing, other-centric, workable, intercultural, harmonious and compassionate model of 'Pluralistic Information Ethics', it proposes the Indian / Asian philosophical method of 'Samvāda' to the current inventory which includes methods like: 'parrhesia/free speech' and 'interpretive phronēsis.

• 철학연구
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• 제147권
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• pp.147-178
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• 2018

이 글에서 필자는 서구중심주의적 사유 패러다임으로 인해 전통과 근대의 이원론적 대립 구도를 자명한 것으로 받아들이는 태도가 한국 헌법의 형성 과정에 대한 학적 탐색을 어떻게 쉽게 헤어 나올 수 없는 논리적 긴장에 휘말리게 하는지를 살펴볼 것이다. 이를 통해 우리사회의 민주주의가 서구 세계로부터 받은 영향에도 불구하고 그것을 나름의 전통을 매개로 하여 능동적이고 주체적으로 해석해 온 역사적 산물이라는 점에 대한 인식이 더 설득력이 있음을 분명하게 할 것이다. 달리 말해 이렇게 할 경우에만 대한민국 제헌헌법의 정신을 조선사회에서 축적된 유교적인 대동이념의 전통을 바탕으로 하여 서구 민주주의 및 공화주의를 나름의 방식으로 이해하고 번역하여 그것을 우리사회에 창조적으로 적용한 역사적 산물로 바라볼 수 있을 것이다. 따라서 유교적 대동정신의 영향사의 지평 속에서 한국의 민주공화국 헌법 정신의 역사적 근원이 제대로 이해될 수 있다는 점을 제시해 보는 것이 이 글의 기본적인 문제의식이다.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제22권
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• pp.73-98
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• 2011

This study has as a object to investigate some various meanings of the discourses of postdevelopment of Arturo Escobar with the respect of the social movements of the indigenous and the afro-colombians in the area of the Pacific Coast of Colombia. The ideological lines of Escobar go around the group of critical discourse Modernity/(De)coloniality whose thesis lies on revealing the coloniality as principal elements of the modernity from the XVI century until now culminating in the neoliberal globalization. In another words, they try to seek for the alternative globalization based on the autonomy of the people who has been alienated for long time as 'others' by the eurocentrism of the power and the knowledge and on the equality of the cultural differences o the cosmovisions in Latin America. Escobar concentrates on the fact that the neoliberal regime would turn the nature into the environment considered as the resources for example the traditional knowledges of biodiversity of the indigenous as the capital of the pharmaceutical companies through the patents. However, the indigenous and the afro-colombians have fought fiercely to have them be maintained as a colective right of the possession not only to guard the economic interests but also their proper cultural traditions and the way of life based on the social solidarity of reciprocal care instead of the occidental individualism. This corresponds not only to the social relations but between the nature and the human society. And so, Arturo Escobar interprets these movements not only to defend the places but to express the cosmovisions of Postdevelopment further more the modern paradigm of nation-state.

• 복식문화연구
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.328-345
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• 2021

The aim of this study is to investigate morphological characteristics of Hanbok images in children's books and propose a direction for the modernization and globalization of traditional culture. This study examines 43 children's books by contemporary foreign illustrators that contain Hanbok illustrations and analyzes them from postcolonial perspective. The results include the following three attributes: first, the transformation of clothing structure and donning method that confuse fundamentals of Korean costume; second, the Westernization of silhouette drawing with tailored garments analogous to Western dress; and third, extension to East Asian dress that represents Hanbok mixed with Chinese or Japanese costume and use what is considered to be the East Asian patterns instead of Korean traditional ones. These attributes are based on Eurocentrism, which expresses and interprets the East from the Western view point with continuously distorted image of the East. Korean illustrators also painted Hanbok incorrectly, which could influence foreign illustrators. Nevertheless, traditional dress illustrated in various ways has artistic value and has a popular global impression. Further, it enables children to experience either own or other cultures through dress illustrations. Thus, the outsider requires an in-depth understanding of other cultures, while the insider needs a critical perception of their own culture as described by others while revisiting the original resources. Furthermore, we suggest follow-up research on Hanbok for subsequent generations; publishing translated books on various topics, producing and disseminating a primer for diverse readers, and essentially receiving counsel from experts.