In the scholarly disciplines, the criticism of ideology is hardly spoken of any longer. The ideology-critical method of immanent critique, associated with the philosopher Karl Marx, is frowned upon. Wrongly. It is a philosophical method that goes back to Socrates and that has since been developed further....
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Asian soap and popstar Jung Ji-hoon alias Rain was at the Berlinale last month for the premiere of his new film. He talks to Jens Balzer about Michael Jackson's moonwalk, trailblazing for an Asian Union and the man who taught him to yodel like a Swiss goatherd.
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Guest of honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Korea presented a lively mix emphasising both tradition and
transformation. In the absence of North Korea, politics was blended out and culture did the talking. By Andreas
Breitenstein
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Korea is the featured country at this year's Book Fair in Frankfurt. Poet Hwang Chi Woo, head of the Korean delegation, reflects on the difference between the visual culture of Europe and the sensual culture of Korea. Where he comes from, Western aesthetic categories simply don't apply.
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The country in focus at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair is Korea. Katharina Borchardt takes a look at the abundance of recently translated works and discovers a literature full of contrast and in the midst of change.
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