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Papers by Marion Eggert

Dorothee Schaab-Hanke, Judith Arokay, eds.: Auf anderen Wegen? Bemerkenswerte Frauen in Ost- und Südostasien, Gossenberg: Ostasien Verlag (Hamburger Sinologische Schriften),, 100-118, 2007

Reiseliteratur Chosŏn 朝鮮-zeitlicher (1392-1910) Frauen mag als ein Thema der Unmöglichkeit ersche... more Reiseliteratur Chosŏn 朝鮮-zeitlicher (1392-1910) Frauen mag als ein Thema der Unmöglichkeit erscheinen. Die seit Beginn der Chosŏn-Zeit zunehmend durchgesetzte Vorstellung von der Verteilung weiblicher und männlicher Zuständigkeiten parallel zu einer Zweiteilung der Welt in Innen-und Außensphäre 1 erschwerte jede Form weiblichen Nach-Außen-Tretens. Unter diesem Paradigma stellte schon die schriftliche Äußerung eine Verletzung des Prinzips der getrennten Sphären dar. Wenn Frauen überhaupt schrieben, so sollte das Ergebnis unter Frauen bleiben, beispielsweise als von der Mutter auf die Tochter vererbte Schriftrollen mit Lehrgedichten über den richtigen Umgang mit Schwiegermüttern. Daß eine der wenigen schriftstellerisch aktiven Frauen, von denen wir überhaupt wissen, Kang Chŏngildang 姜靜一堂 (1772-1832), auf die Nachricht hin, der namhafte Literat Yi Chikpo 李直輔 (1738-1811) habe sich lobend über ein Gedicht von ihr geäußert, sich geweigert haben soll, ihre Werke überhaupt noch herzuzeigen, 2 kann sicher nur als der Versuch verstanden werden, die Schädigung des familiären Rufes in Grenzen zu halten. 3 Während schriftstellerische Aktivität von Frauen als Übung, Bildung, Verinnerlichung kultureller Werte prinzipiell angehen mochte, war sie offenbar moralisch fragwürdig, sobald die Verbreitung der Resultate ein Übertreten der Schwelle des Hauses symbolisierte. 4 Welch starke Vorbehalte dann erst recht dem physischen Ortswechsel von Frauen entgegenstanden, bedarf keiner weiteren Erläuterung. Natürlich galten die enormen Einschränkungen der Bewegungsfreiheit, die Frauen tagsüber völlig aufs Haus beschränkten und ihr selbst den Aufenthalt im eigenen Garten verboten, nur für die Frauen der höchsten Gesellschaftsschicht. 5 Doch da zugleich die Fähigkeit und Muße zu schreiben weitgehend den Frauen dieser Schicht vorbehalten 1

ASIEN, Jun 28, 2020

Yisang (1910–1937), one of the most renowned and best-studied poets of Korea's colonial perio... more Yisang (1910–1937), one of the most renowned and best-studied poets of Korea's colonial period, is usually remembered as a bohemian, as an intoxicated master of modernist language games. But a close reading of the poetologically charged poems with which Yisang introduced himself to his audience as a Koreanlanguage poet in July 1933 reveals that the engagement with Korean history and identity took center place in his own view of his poetical endeavors. However, different from more simple-minded nationalist authors, Yisang recognized the doubleedged quality of "history" and "nation" — constituting both a treasure and a burden. It is argued that this complication of the "love for the nation" instigated by his poetry has been one of the reasons why the political layer of Yisang's poetry has kept being forgotten — notwithstanding repeated rediscoveries — in the scholarship in recent decades. More than anything, it is his distrust of a celebratory pol...

Guilt, Forgiveness, and Moral Repair, 2022

Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident 42, 43-72., 2018

Dreams about deceased beloved ones as narrated in funerary orations (chemun) written roughly betw... more Dreams about deceased beloved ones as narrated in funerary
orations (chemun) written roughly between 1600 and 1820 are
used to study Chosŏn literati’s dealings with bereavement.
Close parallels could be found with the results of
contemporary Western psychological studies on dreams
about the dead. These findings suggest that Chosŏn literati
conceptualized interpersonal relationships and, ultimately,
subjectivity in ways that do not lend themselves to
dichotomic juxtapositions with (modern) Western
individuality.

The Review of Korean Studies, 2019

to two anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions. 1. Numerous publications on Korean... more to two anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions. 1. Numerous publications on Korean intellectual traditions therefore carry "debate" in their title, e.g., Korean Philosophy Seen through Debates (Hanguk cheolhak sasangsa yeonguhoe 1995), Traditional Korean Philosophy: Problems and Debates (Ivanhoe and Back 2017), and Debates between Seon Buddhists and Neo-Confucianists during Late Joseon (Ha 2012). 2. This dichotomous view and arguments about the "harmonious," conflict-evading society have been brought forward more often in regard to China and Japan than to Korea; however, they inform a generalized image of "East Asian mentality" under which Korea is usually subsumed. While scholars in most fields of East Asian Studies may be less prone to subscribe to these views in recent times, influential scholars of (especially Chinese) philosophy, intent on constructing a distinct, inscrutable Other in order to make themselves indispensable as its interpreters, maintain them up to this day. An obvious case in point is the much-cited French Sino-philosopher Francois Julllien. For strong arguments against this line of thinking in Chinese Studies see Roetz 2016, 2019. These works also provide good overviews over the tradition of denying the Confucian tradition an acknowledgement of individual moral autonomy in the sense of standing one's ground against majority consensus.

Cultural conceptions of humanity (the quality of being human) hinge to a large extent on the dist... more Cultural conceptions of humanity (the quality of being human) hinge to a large extent on
the distinctions drawn between human and non-human animals. The question of how much
humanity (the quality of being humane) is both ascribed and extended to animals certainly
contributes considerably to this conceptualization. As a first foray into questions about the
construction and depiction of human-animal relationships in pre-modern Korean literature,
this article looks at the literary treatment of three kinds of domestic animals – cats, dogs,
and horses – in a small sample of literati writings from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century.

Der doppelte Po und die Musik. Chinesisch-rätoromanische Studien, besonders zu Li Po, Harry Partch und Chasper Po

Bochumer Jahrbuch der Ostasienforschung, 2018

Changing notions of time in Korea are usually being discussed in the context of the concept of hi... more Changing notions of time in Korea are usually being discussed in the context of the concept of history, while notions of future are rarely scrutinized. This article combines a general foray into the ways future was thematised by Korean (Confucian) literati based on the use of a number of core phrases; a look at conceptualizations of future in reform writings with a focus on thinkers of the nineteenth century; and a first hypothesis on what happened to "future" during the so-called enlightenment period. It appears that a combination of an influx of new knowledge and confidence in the possession of agency is especially conducive to the development of notions of future as open and malleable.

This essay first discusses Korean co-production of a Sinic cultural sphere, discerning three mode... more This essay first discusses Korean co-production of a Sinic cultural sphere, discerning three modes of knowledge production: appropriation of knowledge from China; aggregation of corresponding native reservoirs of knowledge; and critical reflection on Chosŏn literati’s position within a Sinic episteme. The second part provides an indepth analysis of one chapter of Pak Chiwŏn’s Yŏrha ilgi, the miscellany “Tongnan sŏppil,” which can be said to center on knowledge circulation between China and Korea and to exemplify all three modes, but which can best be understood as an illustration of the creative potentials of the third mode of knowledge production, which gives space to imaginative hermeneutics.

Religion, 2012

This paper investigates the history and pre-history of the Korean adaptation of the Western conce... more This paper investigates the history and pre-history of the Korean adaptation of the Western concept of 'religion' through three case studies. Based on the assumption that Koreans were not just the object of Western expansion but subjects in an 'entangled' history, it attempts to demonstrate that the intellectual challenges posed to Korean literati by their exposure to 'Western Learning' and other Others had prompted the emergence of both generic and differentiated notions of religion well before the so-called 'opening of Korea' at the end of the 19th century. Examples culled from the writings of two 18th and 19th-century Korean scholars show both the forces at work to create such notions and the limits of their potential to alter the Confucian epistemic framework within which these scholars operated. A look at an early 20th-century representative of 'religionized' Confucianism serves to highlight the persistent incompatibilities of Confucianism with differentiated religion.

Research on Korea, 2014

Contents: Marion Eggert: Circulation of Knowledge as Theme and Method in Korean Studies - Felix S... more Contents: Marion Eggert: Circulation of Knowledge as Theme and Method in Korean Studies - Felix Siegmund/Dennis Wuerthner: Knowledge as a Subject of East Asian History - Burglind Jungmann: Early Choson Painting, Social Reorganization, and the Knowledge of Chinese Literati Arts - Felix Siegmund: The Circulation of Military Knowledge and its Localization. Some Notes on the Case of Military Techniques in Late Choson Korea - Kang Seok Hwa: A Study on the Assimilation of Qing Military Technology in Choson during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Dagmar Schafer: Media and Migration: Qing Imperial Approaches to Technological Knowledge Circulation - Pierre-Emmanuel Roux: The Prohibited Sect of Yaso: Catholicism in Diplomatic and Cultural Encounters between Edo Japan and Choson Korea (17th to 19th Century) - Marion Eggert: Text and Orality in the Early Reception of Western Learning within the Namin Faction. The Example of Sin Hudam's Kimunp'yon.

Space and Location in the Circulation of Knowledge (1400–1800)

Religion and Secularity, 2013

This publication has been typeset in the multilingual "Brill" typeface. With over 5,100 character... more This publication has been typeset in the multilingual "Brill" typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, iPA, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface.

Religious Dynamics under the Impact of Imperialism and Colonialism

Yijing Cosmology in Kuunmong, 2002

"Yijing Cosmology in Kuunmong", in: Embracing the Other: The Interaction of Korean and Foreign Cu... more "Yijing Cosmology in Kuunmong", in: Embracing the Other: The Interaction of Korean and Foreign Cultures. Proceedings of the 1st World Congress of Korean Studies. Sŏngnam: Academy of Korean Studies, 2002, 213-218.