Dichotomously Stiffened Dialectics in the Entangled Modernity of the Colonized and the Colonizers: A Critical Comment on Professor Singh's Article', Colonised's Madness, Colonisers'Modernity and International Law: Mythological Materialism in the East-West Telos

• Author: Yun-Gi Hong
• Position: Professor of Ethics and Social Philosophy at Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea. B.A./M.A. (Seoul N. Univ.), Ph.D. (FU Berlin).
• Pages: 105-114

NOTES & COMMENTS

Dichotomously Stiffened

Dialectics in the Entangled

Modernity of the Colonized

and the Colonizers: A Critical

Comment on Professor

Singhs Article, Coloniseds

Madness, Colonisers

Modernity and International

Law: Mythological

Materialism in the East-West

Telos

Yun-Gi Hong

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A primary purpose of this paper is to critically evaluate Professor P. Singh



s Article,



Colonised



s Madness, Colonisers



Modernity and International Law: Mythological

Materialism in the East-West Telos



published in Volume 3, Number 1 of the

Journal of East Asia and International Law. In his article, Singh attempted to

overlap various conceptions of modernity taken from a wide range of academic

disciplines, and experimentally collapse them into one with a post-colonial point of

view. In spite of incomplete argumentation and obscurity in the conceptual

formulation, I found his original ideas on the internal connection of modernity with

the operating mode of international law to be highly impressive. The most critical

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* Professor of Ethics and Social Philosophy at Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea. B.A./M.A. (Seoul N. Univ.), Ph.D.

(FU Berlin). The author may be contacted at: hyg57@chol.com/Address: 26, 3 Pil-dong, Chung-gu, Seoul 100- 715 Korea.