Eun-Jeung Lee

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Eun-Jeung Lee (born September 15, 1963 in Daejeon ) is a South Korean Koreanist .

Life

She studied political science , sociology and ethnology in Seoul and Göttingen . After Hermann Heller's dissertation on state thinking in Göttingen in 1993, she received an Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship from 1994 to 1995 at the University of Halle . After the habilitation grant from the state of Saxony-Anhalt from 1998-2000 and her habilitation on the history of the reception of Confucianism in European thought since the early Enlightenment in 2001 in Halle an der Saale , she had a Japan Foundation Fellowship in Tokyo from 2001 to 2002 . From 2006 to 2007 she represented the chair in Halle. Since 2008 she has been teaching at the Institute for Korean Studies at the Free University of Berlin . Rejected calls to Leipzig and Bochum . In 2013 she received the Mirok Lee Prize of the German-Korean Society. Since 2014 she has been a member of the German-Korean advisory committee on foreign policy issues related to reunification. She has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2014 . Since 2016 she has been a full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .

Her research interests are the intercultural history of political ideas in Europe and East Asia, political theory, political culture, the history and society of Korea, and international comparative transformation research.

Fonts (selection)

  • The social rule of law as an alternative to authoritarian rule. To update Hermann Heller's theory of state and democracy . Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-08134-X .
  • Confucianism and Capitalism. Market and Domination in East Asia . Münster 1997, ISBN 3-89691-412-X .
  • “Anti-Europe” - The History of the Reception of Confucianism and Confucian Society since the Early Enlightenment. A study of the history of ideas with special consideration of German developments . Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8258-6206-2 .
  • Sŏwŏn - Confucian private academies in Korea. Knowledge institutions of the premodern . Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 3-631-67086-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Lee, Eun-Jeung
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean political scientist and Koreanist
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Daejeon