Under the influence of romanticism, beauty has been regarded as similar to illness. However, it seems that beauty has a confrontation with illness from a conceptual point of view. In Kant’s aesthetics, the beautiful is defined as a ‘sensus communis’ (common sense) by which it means a free unison and harmony. If we accept this definition, beauty must be analogized not to illness but health. Hence new notions of health and illness(disease in Canguilhem’s text) are required in order that the pains of poetic narrators may be taken as aesthetic. Generally speaking, health is a normal state, while disease is an abnormal state. But Canguilhem said disease remains a kind of biological norm and being healthy and being normal are not altogether equivalent. Accordingly, What characterize health is the possibility of transcending the norm, which defines the momentary normal and instituting new norms in new situations. In order to institute new norms, literature has to destroy the pathological normal in the world. The confession of pain is not an expression of pathological state, but that of scepticism about the health. The scepticism is a symptom of literary infection. From such an sceptical and painful state, subject creates new forms of sensitive intuition without conforming to the regular use of concepts. This process is called aesthetic therapy, the movement associated with the concept of beauty between illness and health. Recently many people have taken a deep interest in the literary therapy and the literary counseling. comprehension of dynamism of what beauty is, can offer a theoretical foundation of the study on them. It also makes us search for new possibilities in literary democracy in the world where pains are omnipresent.
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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.