The Vegetable Patch and the Garden
English working title. Korean title: 텃밭과 정원.
World rights excluding Korea are available. English synopsis, sample translation and full Korean text on request.
About this book
This book threads humanity’s greatest intellectual journey on a single word: abstraction. Professor Choi Jin-seok argues that while the vast records left by Babylon and Egypt remained ledgers of survival, the abstraction drawn out by the ancient Greeks became the blueprint for designing the world — the difference between the eye that records a vegetable patch and the eye that designs a garden. The question “why” sets up a ladder of abstraction, and only those who climb it escape other people’s scripts to become the lawmakers of their own lives.
About the author
Philosopher and professor emeritus of philosophy at Sogang University. He earned his PhD at Peking University with research on Zhuangzi and taught at Sogang from 1998. He founded the non-profit Saemal Saemomjit in 2020.
