The Continuous Rebirth of Life : A Study of Hesse’s Siddharta Seung-Chong Lee (Yonsei University) Hesse’s Siddharta is a philosophical novel on the life of Siddharta, his awakening, and teaching. Siddharta’s thinking is expressed by the monologues or the dialogues in the concrete contexts to which Siddharta belongs. Even though the themes and theses of his thoughts are philosophical, they neither make arguments, nor theories but are merely scattered and fragmentary remarks on the various states of affairs encountered during human life. His remarks constitute a working notebook or albums full of trials, errors, revisions, and sketches made in the course of journey called life. There is no such thing as nirvana according to Siddharta. There is only a continuous rebirth of life. Achieving nirvana is not the aim of Siddharta. In the course of a continuous rebirth of life, the past does not remain as traces or shadows in the present. Rather, as it is exhausted or knotted by deconstruction, overcoming, or oblivion, the past prepares a new departure. The rupture and the discontinuity that a new departure entails are balanced in the text by the macro plot of return. The life of Siddharta proceeds with the dual flow of difference and repetition. The touching ending of Siddharta is to be understood neither as the final conclusion of his inquiry nor as his attaining of eternal truth or nirvana. It merely represents the tentative path mark that is reached by a finite being, i.e., Siddharta. After the text of Siddharta is over, the life of Siddharta will continue. Even though there may be no more awakening, he will devote himself to the keeping and practicing of what he has learnt.
목차
1. 카프카 2. 나의 투쟁 3. 부처와 싯다르타 4. 윤회와 자아 5. 탐구의 논리 6. 강가의 아침 7. 낯선 시간 속으로 8. 삶은 지속된다 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.