Consilient Thinking and Humanistic Imagination : Towards a Broader Horizon of Maritime Literature Youngho Choi (Korea Naval Academy) Looking into maritime literature through consilient thinking and humanistic imagination enables the reader to question the uniform discussions regarding it. By drawing in a variety of literary qualities evident in maritime literature, new possibilities of creation in literature are set forth. If the creation of maritime literature is what writers are solely responsible for, the literary world as a whole is able to answer for the denial and criticism arising from the limited understanding that considers the sea a mere storage of the material world. It is believed that there will be a colorful burst of new literary possibilities, if such a critical view is well accepted to make contributions to authorial creativity. This study lays its purpose on a critical understanding of the reality in which discussions on maritime literature have so far ruled out any thinking, sensibility, and ideas different from the prevailing view that maritime literature is nothing buta portrayer of a material sea. The sea reflected in and represented by literature should not be denied its identity just because it lies beyond the physical boundaries defined by oceanography. This research is designed to create an opportunity to review and rethink materialism that has been haunting maritime literature, with a new approach grounded on consilience tearing down the boundaries of knowledge and imagination valuing but not confined to material itself. It also aims to bring new attention to a maritime literature featuring human beings and their lives along with a variety of human needs and desires emerging from them. All these efforts to overcome the framework of the existing literary trend are expected not to deconstruct maritime literature but instead to help restore, and strengthen, its productive creativity. After all, it is the cultivation of a good literature, be it rooted in materialistic spatiality or in organistic placeness, that we are working for in order to make the world a better place to live in. In this regard, it is believed that renewing approaches to studying maritime literature with the new tools of consilient thinking and humanistic imagination has a direct link not only to expanding the boundaries of Korean literature but also to unveiling the veil of human life.
목차
I. 문제제기 II. 해석된 바다와 해양문학을 보는 시각 III. 통섭적 사유와 학문의 탈(脫) 경계 IV. 해양문학과 인문학의 바다 V. 맺음말 : 해양문학의 지평 확대를 위한 인식 전환 인용문헌 Abstract
키워드
Consilient ThinkingHumanistic ImaginationBroader HorizonMaritime Literature
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.