Seong-Man Choi Professor Emeritus
Seong Man Choi received his Ph. D. from the Department of German Philology at the Free University Berlin with a thesis on Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Mimesis. He joined the Department of German Language & Literature in 1995. Besides a lot of translations of German Texts on aesthetics into Korean such as The Sociology of Arts by Arnold Hauser, The Music World of Komponist Isang Yun, Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship by Gershom Scholem, Theory of Avantgarde by Peter Buerger, Walter Benjamin’s Selected Writings (15 vols.), he has published a monograph on Benjamin: Walter Benjamin: Politics of Remenbrance and many essays on Benjamin, Adorno, deconstruction. His particular teaching and research interests mainly focus on modernity, contemporary aesthetics, literature and cultural discourses.
Research Record
- 발터 벤야민의 ‘비평’ 개념 뷔히너와 현대문학, 2019, v.52 no.52, 181-216
- 벤야민의 카프카 해석에서 신학적인 것 카프카 연구, 2019, no.42, 25-50
Courses
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2021-2nd
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German Culture in Europe
- Subject No 33547Class No 01
- 2Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Tue 5~5 , Thu 6~6
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Translation Practice In German Studies
- Subject No 38288Class No 01
- 3Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Tue 6~6 , Thu 4~4
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2021-1st
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Mimesis and Human Beings
- Subject No 11292Class No 01
- Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Tue 4~4 , Fri 5~5
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Reading and Writing of Cultural Criticism
- Subject No 35266Class No 01
- 4Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Tue 6~6 (POSCO259) , Thu 4~4 (POSCO259)
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Academic Background
Free University of Berlin (Freie Universitat Berlin) Ph.D.(독어독문학)