Heidegger's Critique of Democracy and Aesthetic Community En Jung Lee (Yonsei University) This paper examines Heidegger's critique of democracy and the aesthetic community he proposes as an alternative. In his later period, Heidegger pointed out some problems characterizing today's democracy's and the global extension of technology. The point of his criticism is that modern thought based on the subject-object dualism determines the usage of technology, swaying the whole world in an imperialistic way. Heidegger compared this democracy as Americanism, which, according to him, has three characters. First, it shows un-conditional will to represent the world as one figure. Second, it produces democratic plebeian by joining subjectivism to objectivism. Third, coupled with Christianity, Americanism produces an a-historical atmosphere and blocks the self-questioning. The end-result of this peculiar version democracy is imperial combined with capitalism. Heidegger's 'aesthetic community' is an alternative whereby to surmount the crisis of today's democracy. He suggests that present political problems can be overcome by resorting to Art, which shares its origin with technology. In proposing this new form of community, he conceives of the possibility of producing poetic art that does not lead individuals into a mass but turns them into Etrangers, who form a commune for going back to homeland for arche. In this respect, Heidegger's aesthetic community is also the community of Etrangers who resist to be the subjects and become the Ex-sistenz for itself. This community can also be called the 'poetic community' in the sense that the language in it is not simply a tool for communication but the home of Being (das Haus des Seins) shared by all the members of the community.
목차
1. 서론 2. 민주주의와 미국주의 3. 민주주의와 제국 4. 기술과 예술 5. 미학적 공동체 6. 결론 : 미완의 과제 인용문헌 Abstract
국제언어인문학회 [INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HUMANISTIC STUDIES IN LANGUAGE]
설립연도
2000
분야
인문학>언어학
소개
국제언어인문학회는 '언어를 통한 인문학 연구'의 필요성에 동감하는 여러 전공분야 학자들의 뜻을 담고 있습니다. 언어에 초점을 맞추는 것은, 다양한 전공분야의 참여에서 생겨날 수 있는 '이질적 집합'의 상황을 극복하기 위한 장치입니다. 현재로서는 작은 불씨를 지핀 것에 불과합니다. 그러나 이렇게 일구어진 불꽃이 새로운 학풍의 바람결에 커다란 섬광으로 빛나게 될 날이 올 것을 우리는 확신합니다. 우리의 학회와 학술지는 인문학 불변의 가치와 시대적 사명을 인식하는 국내외의 학자들을 향해 활짝 개방되어 있습니다. 특정 전공의 범위를 넘어서서 철학, 문학, 언어학, 종교, 역사, 문화, 예술 등의 시각에서 언어의 본질을 토론할 기회가 될 것입니다.