[Article] Climate Crisis and the Double Project of Modernity: On Reading “Dialogue: Climate Crisis and Systemic Transformation” / Paik Nak-chung
The Quarterly Changbi 191, Spring 2021
Abstract
Paik Nak-chung’s article, which includes his review of “Dialogue: Climate Crisis and Systemic Transformation,” published in the previous issue of Changbi, revolves around his theory of a “proper level of growth,” in line with overcoming of an economic growth ideology, in the context of systemic transformation. In this process, Paik also retraces his critical dialogue with late Green Review publisher Kim Jong-cheol, suggesting the possibility of a dialogue between Paik’s theory of the double project of modernity and Kim’s theory of a small nation. Above all, by emphasizing systemic transformation, accompanied by spiritual gaebyeok, through a marriage of the idea of hucheon gaebyeok and Heidegger’s concept of the age of technology, Paik offers a framework for enabling a transition from climate crisis and capitalism to a new type of civilization.