Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia was written in answer to Queries proposed by Francois Marbois, who sought information about American states. This book consists of 23 queries, which range in subject from nature of Virginia to human institutions. Marbois asked 22 questions and Jefferson rearranged them into a new sequence. This means that the book is carefully plotted and structured to manifest the author’s plan for establishing an agrarian republic in the new land. Jefferson finds nature not arbitrary or pointless but orderly and constant. His social and political theories for a new republic are based on these natural principles. For Jefferson, American nature and land are a kind of ground where his social, economic, and political theories are formed and cultivated. The American land, therefore, becomes the ideological landscape to which farmers are central. Jefferson’s farmer whom he sets as the American character is independent and democratic. His agrarian republic is an embodiment of what Leo Marx calls the middle landscape or pastoralism. Jefferson projects order, harmony, and composure he finds in this landscape into the self-image of America, and then integral national self. Confronting social disintegration posed by social and cultural heterogeneity, Jefferson wants his republic to be homogeneous, egalitarian, and, most of all, conflict-free. This state, he believes, can keep the republic orderly, stable, and unified. Thus, to keep his republic safe, he tries to erase the heterogeneity such as slavery, immigrants, native Americans, and manufacturing, which leads to monoculturalism.
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Thomas JeffersonNotes on the State of Virginiaagrarian republicnaturenatural principles
국제언어인문학회 [INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HUMANISTIC STUDIES IN LANGUAGE]
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2000
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인문학>언어학
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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.