A unique project by eleven researchers—translating the genealogy of thought traversing the history of world philosophy and building a new narrative upon it—has culminated in a single volume. Titled <World History of Philosophy: Translating Thought and Creating Narratives>, this book focuses not on a simple enumeration of diverse philosophical traditions from antiquity to modernity, but on reconstructing them into a grand narrative through the process of translating and weaving together different modes of thought.

The authors do not treat Greek, Indian, Chinese, Islamic, and modern/contemporary European thought as isolated islands. Instead, through the experiment of translating thought—transplanting each tradition's core concepts and concerns onto one another—it presents world philosophy as a single space of dialogue. This process clearly reveals an intent to critically reexamine Western-centric narrative frameworks and bring previously marginalized modes of thought to the forefront, aiming to paint a balanced ‘History of World Philosophy’.

Another axis of the book is ‘narrative creation’. The authors present the history of philosophy not as a dry chronology or list of concepts, but as a continuous story of how humanity has understood itself. By placing the historical and cultural contexts where thought emerged, the scenes where different traditions intersected and clashed, and the questions they pose to us today onto a single narrative thread, they reconstruct the history of philosophy as a compelling story. This allows readers to follow how thought moves and varies, rather than merely memorizing philosophers.

Above all, this book's defining feature is its dual aim of academic rigor and accessibility. While engaging with specialized philosophical concepts, it actively draws connections to mythology, literature, and art to unravel abstruse thought into visual and narrative imagery. By highlighting the points where world mythology, philosophy, religion, politics, science, and art intertwine, it presents the history of world philosophy not merely as an accumulation of the past, but as a draft of a story yet to be written.

<Translating Thought and Creating Narratives in the History of World Philosophy> is poised to offer meaningful intellectual stimulation not only to university lecture halls and research laboratories but also to readers seeking new horizons in world philosophy and the humanities. For those questioning what philosophy can still accomplish in our era and how we might think together across different traditions of thought, this volume appears to serve as a powerful starting point and guide.

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Professor Park Kyu Cheol graduated from the Department of Philosophy at Yonsei University and received his Ph.D. from the same university's graduate school with a dissertation on Plato's 《Gorgias》. He has served as a Senior Research Fellow at the Yonsei University Humanities Research Institute, Editor-in-Chief of the monthly magazines 《Emerge》 and 《Next》, and as a professor at ACTS University. He is currently a professor of Western Ancient Philosophy at Kookmin University's College of General Education Director of the Humanitas Leadership Institute, President of the Korean Society for Philosophy East-West, and an editorial board member of the Societas Philosophiae Mediaeualis Coreana. While his primary field is the philosophy of Socrates and Plato, he has expanded his research to explore the insights ancient skepticism offers us today, culminating in his book 『Homo Dubitans』. Other books include 『Questions of Greek and Roman Philosophy』, 『The Philosophy of Plato and Skepticism』, 『Greek Enlightenment and Neoplatonism』, 『Understanding Emotion in Ancient Greek Philosophy* (co-authored), *The Spirit of Leadership Seen Through the Lens of Classics』 (co-authored), 『Reading Plato's Republic for Writing and Debate, and How to Write a Short Essay?』 (co-authored). +His translations include Plato and the Socratic Dialogue』 (co-translated), 『Neoplatonism』 (co-translated), and 『Philosophy and Theology in the Postmodern Era』 (co-translated). Currently, he is researching skepticism in medieval Western Europe and the Islamic world during the 12th-14th centuries, focusing on the theme “The Paradigmatic Transformation of Ancient Skepticism in Medieval Philosophy: The Skeptical Philosophy of Johannes, Nicholas, and al-Ghazali.”