The Age of Crisis, Challenge to History and Remaining Problems

Abstract

This paper aims to review the achievements in the field of historical theory and history of ideas produced in the Western historical academia of Korea between 2021 and 2022. In such an age of crisis as Anthropocene, some argued that we should break away from human-centered thinking and look at history from a longer-term perspective. Along with that, attempts were made to look at nationalism from a transnational perspective and to rethink the problem of memory, history, and the specific space where they meet. Developments have also been made in the field of traditional history of thought. Overall, increases in Western historians’ interest in education and their continued expansion of research into the field of Korean history deserve a positive evaluation. But, it is regrettable that only declarative theories are being raised rather than concrete achievements.