Kwak Jun-hyeok


Jun-Hyeok Kwak is a South Korean political philosopher, professor and Yixian Scholar of Philosophy at Sun Yat-sen University, China, where he is also serving as the head of political philosophy and ethics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2002. Before joining Sun Yat-sen University, he taught at various universities including Korea University and Kyungpook National University. His research interests lie at the crossroads of Western political philosophy, contemporary political theory, and comparative philosophy. He has been widely known as a republican theorist of ‘reciprocal non-domination.’ Currently, he is serving as General Editor of the Routledge Series of Political Theories in East Asian Context and co-editor of Journal of Social and Political Philosophy.

Education

Academic awards and fellowships

Selected papers

  • “Relationality without Hierarchy: Hong Daeyong’s Reappraisal of Tianxia,” in Tianxia in Comparative Perspective: Alternative Models of Geopolitical Order, edited by Roger Ames, Sor-hoon Tan, and Y. H. Yang.
  • “Individuality with Relationality: Ahn Changho’s Modern Transvaluation of Confucianism.” Philosophy East and West,
  • “A Confucian Reappraisal of Christian Love: Ahn Changho Contra Augustinian Studies Conducted in South Korea.” Religions,.
  • “Non-domination with Nothingness: Supplementing Pettit’s Theory of Democratic Deliberation.” ',.
  • “Confucian Role-Ethics with Non-Domination: Civil Compliance in Times of Crisis.” ',
  • “Interview with Philip Pettit: Neo-Roman Republicanism and Northeast Asia,” with Philip Pettit ,.
  • “Deliberation with Persuasion: the ‘political’ in Aristotle’s Politics.” ,.
  • “Overcoming Victimhood: Forward-looking Apology with Reciprocal Non-domination,” Korean Journal of Political Science,.
  • “Global Justice without Self-Centrism: Tianxia in Dialogues on Mount Uisan.” ',.
  • “Republican Liberation and Non-domination: Democratic Republicanism and the March First Movement.” , ..
  • “Republican Patriotism and Machiavelli’s Patriotism, Australian Journal of Political Science,.
  • “Nationalism and Democracy Revisited: The Limits of Democratic Nationalism in South Korea,” ',.
  • "The Politics of Aspiration". Japanese Journal of Political Thought..

Selected books

  • Kwak Jun-Hyeok, ', with Ken Cheng.
  • Kwak Jun-Hyeok, 《西方政治哲学导论》（Chinese, Introduction to Western Political Philosophy）中国社会科学出版社 .
  • Kwak Jun-Hyeok, '.
  • Kwak Jun-Hyeok, ', with Hugo El Kholi.
  • Kwak Jun-Hyeok, ', with Sungwoo Park.
  • Kwak Jun-Hyeok, with Jangjip Choi et al, Lectures on Classics.
  • Kwak Jun-Hyeok, with Jungin Kang et al, Challenges of Public Society.
  • Kwak Jun-Hyeok, Political Philosophy I & II.
  • Kwak Jun-Hyeok, , with Leigh Jenco.
  • Kwak Jun-Hyeok, , with Koichiro Matsuda.
  • Kwak Jun-Hyeok, Re-Reading Machiavelli, Realist with Imagination ''.''
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