Intellectuals in Between

Marion Eggert teaches Korean Studies at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Her research interests focus on Korean intellectual and literary history, including the history of knowledge, the intersection of traditions, and the formation of subjectivities.Eun-Jeung Lee is Professor for Korean Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her research focuses are intercultural history of political ideas, political theory, transformation of systems, German unification, Korean politics and culture.Vladimir Tikhonov teaches Korean and general East Asian Studies at Oslo University, Norway. His research interests are focused on modern and contemporary intellectual history and the history of social and political movements in Korea, with particular emphasis on nationalism and socialism.

• Introduction - A New Place in the World: Ch'oe Han'gi's (1803–1875) Encyclopaedic Endeavour for Epistemic Restructuring -Seeking for Agency in Troubled Times: Pak Ŭnsik-"Fight Fire with Fire" — Sin Ch’aeho (1880–1936) and his Anti-Colonial Social Darwinist Nationalism-Hŏ Chŏng-suk – An Intellectual Who Broke the Mold of Custom and Fought for a New Society-Pak In-dŏk: Female Intellectual In-Between – A New Woman Born in 1896-Bibliography