Jung Ja Park

Jung Ja Park is an author who has written a series of books analyzing issues such as consumption, social mobility, power, and everyday life from a humanities perspective. Her notable works include "Vincent’s Shoes" "Gaze is Power" "This is Not an Apple" "13 Puzzle Pieces Found in Manet’s Paintings" "The Age of Simulacra" "The Aesthetics of Surplus" "This is Not a Political Story" and "We Owe Our Bread to the Baker’s Selfishness(which was translated and published in Taiwan under the title Learning Capitalism at the Bakery: A Humanities Perspective on the Changing Roles of Capitalists and Workers in the Digital Age)." Other works include "Luxury of Robinson Crusoe" and "What are Habitus and Aura". She has also translated works such as Jean-Paul Sartre’s "What is an Intellectual?" "Colonialism and Neocolonialism" "Critique of Dialectical Reason (co-translated)" Michel Foucault’s "The History of Sexuality" "Abnormal" "Society Must Be Defended" "Reading Foucault in Comics" "Foucault’s Biography" and "30 Years After the History of Madness". Additionally, she has translated Henri Lefebvre’s "Everyday Life in the Modern World" André Glucksmann’s "The Masters of Thought" and "Raymond Aron: A Liberal Dialogue". Jung Ja Park graduated from the Department of French Language and Literature at Seoul National University, where she also earned her Master’s and Ph.D. Her doctoral thesis was titled "The Return to Non-Realist Aesthetics: Centered on Sartre’s The Imbecile in the Family". She has served as Dean of the College of Education at Sangmyung University and is currently a professor emeritus. She is also a popular writer on Facebook, with a large following of readers.