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전쟁의 잔영: 후쿠이 겐이치와 로얼드 호프만
두 명의 ’여섯 명 중 한 명’: 1981년 노벨 화학상 1981년 10월 19일, 두 명의 노벨 화학상 공동수상자가 발표되었다. 그러나 태평양 양쪽에 있던 이들, 일본 교토대학의 후쿠이 겐이치(福井謙一, 1918-1998)와 미국 코넬대학교의 로얼드 호프만(Roald Hoffmann, 1937-)을 향한 언론의 온도차는 컸다. 발표 다음날 요미우리 조간신문은 1면 최상단에 검은색 음영을 덧입힌 표제로 “노벨 화학상에 후쿠이 겐이치 (교토대학) 교수”를…
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Imagining and Expanding the New Country
The history of America to 1815 was an active process of spreading Europeans into an unknown land. To condense the long narrative into three themes, it would be helpful to pose these three questions: What happened, how so, and which events followed that? Answering the questions one by one, I suggest three objects, water, a…
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Tipping the Balance Sheets
Varying Motives during the Epidemic of Freedom in Early United States Freedom is Contagious One of the most important documents of the United States of America, the Declaration of Independence, demonstrates that all men are created equal. However, history proves that the utopian promise was half-empty: The institution of slavery and indentured servitude, which largely…
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Tangential Extrapolation
The Subversive Role of Literature within the Centro-circular Model of Western Subject-Object Dichotomy In both Can the Subaltern Speak? and Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism, Spivak urges readers to recognize their politically biased position, no matter how “neutral” they assert they are. In her analysis, the subject formation can be likened to a closed circle…