Author: Immanuel Kim File Type: pdf North Korea, the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK), is firmly fixed in the Western imagination as a barbaric vestige of the Cold War, a rogue nation that refuses to abide by international norms. It is seen as belligerent and oppressive, a poor nation bent on depriving its citizens of their basic human rights and expanding its nuclear weapons program at the expense of a faltering economy. Even the Norths literary output is stigmatized and dismissed as mere propaganda literature praising the Great Leader.Immanuel Kims book confronts these stereotypes, offering a more complex portrayal of literature in the North based on writings from the 1960s to the present. The state, seeking to write revolution, prescribes grand narratives populated with characters motivated by their political commitments to the leader, the Party, the nation, and the collective. While acknowledging these qualities, Kim argues for deeper readings. In some novels and stories, he finds, the path to becoming a revolutionary hero or heroine is no longer a simple matter of formulaic plot progression instead it is challenged, disrupted, and questioned by individual desires, decisions, doubts, and imaginations. Fiction in the 1980s in particular exhibits refreshing story lines and deeper character development along with creative approaches to delineating women, sexuality, and the family. These changes are so striking that they have ushered in what Kim calls a Golden Age of North Korean fiction.Rewriting Revolution charts the insightful literary frontiers that critically portray individuals negotiating their political and sexual identities in a revolutionary state. In this fresh and thought-provoking analysis of North Korean fiction, Kim looks past the ostensible state propaganda to explore the dynamic literary world where individuals with human emotions reside. His book fills a major lacuna and will be of interest to literary scholars and historians of East Asia, as well as to scholars of global and comparative studies in socialist countries.**ReviewBy foregrounding love and sexuality, Immanuel Kim not only opens up our consideration of their importance in North Korean literary texts, but also highlights strategies for cultural resistance in the face of censorship and the complexity of the act of writing itself in North Korea. This is a major accomplishment and makes an important contribution not only to Korean studies but to Asian studies and global literary studies more broadly.--Theodore Hughes, Columbia University Review By foregrounding love and sexuality, Immanuel Kim not only opens up our consideration of their importance in North Korean literary texts, but also highlights strategies for cultural resistance in the face of censorship and the complexity of the act of writing itself in North Korea. This is a major accomplishment and makes an important contribution not only to Korean studies but to Asian studies and global literary studies more broadly. (Theodore Hughes, Columbia University)

Author: Burt C. Hopkins File Type: pdf Edmund Husserl has been hugely influential in the development of contemporary continental philosophy. This introduction examines chronologically the whole of Husserls phenomenology as it is presented in the published corpus.

Author: Jason M. Wirth File Type: epub Essays exploring a rich intersection between phenomenology and idealism with contemporary relevance. Toward the end of his life, Maurice Merleau-Ponty made a striking retrieval of F. W. J. Schellings philosophy of nature. The Barbarian Principle explores the relationship between these two thinkers on this topic, opening up a dialogue with contemporary philosophical and ecological significance that will be of special interest to philosophers working in phenomenology and German idealism. The Barbarian Principle is an excellent contribution to the study of Schelling and Merleau-Ponty. For the Schelling scholar or student, it opens a new horizon for reconsidering Schellings influence on twentieth-century continental philosophy in general, and phenomenology in particular (where much interest has been paid to Heidegger). For the Merleau-Ponty scholar or student, this volume demonstrates that Merleau-Pontys engagement with German idealism extends well beyond the interrogation of Hegel or Kant. Devin Zane Shaw, author of Freedom and Nature in Schellings Philosophy of Art Jason M. Wirth is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University and the author of The Conspiracy of Life Meditations on Schelling and His Time, also published by SUNY Press. Patrick Burke is Professor of Philosophy at Gonzaga University and is Dean of Gonzaga-in-Florence. **Review The Barbarian Principle is an excellent contribution to the study of Schelling and Merleau-Ponty. For the Schelling scholar or student, it opens a new horizon for reconsidering Schelling s influence on twentieth-century continental philosophy in general, and phenomenology in particular (where much interest has been paid to Heidegger). For the Merleau-Ponty scholar or student, this volume demonstrates that Merleau-Ponty s engagement with German idealism extends well beyond the interrogation of Hegel or Kant. Devin Zane Shaw, author of Freedom and Nature in Schelling s Philosophy of Art The Barbarian Principle is an excellent contribution to the study of Schelling and Merleau-Ponty. For the Schelling scholar or student, it opens a new horizon for reconsidering Schelling s influence on twentieth-century continental philosophy in general, and phenomenology in particular (where much interest has been paid to Heidegger). For the Merleau-Ponty scholar or student, this volume demonstrates that Merleau-Ponty s engagement with German idealism extends well beyond the interrogation of Hegel or Kant. Devin Zane Shaw, author of Freedom and Nature in Schelling s Philosophy of Art [The book] would be of interest to students of both Merleau-Ponty and Schelling for the clash of the titans aspect it is fascinating to see how thinkers from such different starting-points and traditions end up standing so close to one another on these fundamental questions, and thought-provoking, too, to see where unresolvable differences remain. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews The Barbarian Principle is an excellent contribution to the study of Schelling and Merleau-Ponty. For the Schelling scholar or student, it opens a new horizon for reconsidering Schelling s influence on twentieth-century continental philosophy in general, and phenomenology in particular (where much interest has been paid to Heidegger). For the Merleau-Ponty scholar or student, this volume demonstrates that Merleau-Ponty s engagement with German idealism extends well beyond the interrogation of Hegel or Kant. Devin Zane Shaw, author of Freedom and Nature in Schelling s Philosophy of Art About the Author Jason M. Wirth is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University and the author of The Conspiracy of Life Meditations on Schelling and His Time, also published by SUNY Press. Patrick Burke is Professor of Philosophy at Gonzaga University and is Dean of Gonzaga-in-Florence.

Author: Brigitte Preissl File Type: pdf After the dramatic failures of the dot coms in 2000 and 2001, many observers were quick to report on the death of electronic commerce. Investor confidence sagged, stock prices of technology firms in nearly all of the related sectors suffered. In reality, the picture is not nearly as dismal as the press would have us believe. E-commerce is not dead, but it has moved beyond its overhyped beginning stage. This book is an effort to sort through the hype, providing a realistic assessment of the state of electronic commerce today, and the important areas of opportunity and challenge for tomorrow. The book sees all kind of developments where e-business is becoming an integral part of traditional business processes, with special emphasis on practical and policy importance. E-commerce scholars from a number of disciplines and countries contribute to assess the impact of the dot com bust and the current state of e-commerce.