The essay explores Charles Taylor's and Slavoj Žižek's theories of multiculturalism, and attempts to suggest the alternative to multicultural ideas dominated in the Western societies. Firstly, the essay examines Taylor's consideration of multiculturalism, in particular, his argument on the relationship between recognition and cultural communication based on language in general. Taylor regards language in a broad sense as a cultural code system by which one can recognize his or herself in the process of communication with the other. What Taylor seems to put an emphasis on is that the idea of multiculturalism is the very telos inscribed in the development of modern states as well as of the individuals. Taylor points out the beginning of modernization and the birth of authenticity as the category of immanent morality. Through the authenticity, that is, the category of morality, the individual could find the original self. From this perspective, the doctrine of Herderian nationalism came to exist in its own right. Different from Taylor's viewpoint, Žižek criticizes multiculturalism as an ideology suppressing the singularities of ethnic groups. Multiculturalism serves as the discursive justification of racial hierarchy in the society by preserving a cultural and political distance from immigrants. Like a Chinese lunchbox, such an ideological set-up operates with the logic of assimilation, even though multiculturalism openly asserts itself as the alternative to the assimilating policies. Discussing the difference between Taylor and Žižek, the essay concludes that an attempt to go beyond multiculturalism is the way in which one can create a world that comes into the singularities without unitotality forced by the globalizing worldlessness.
목차
1. 들어가며 2. 테일러의 다문화주의 이론과 그 한계 3. 지젝의 다문화주의 비판 4. 다문화주의라는 정상성의 범주 5. 결론 : 다문화주의를 넘어서 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.