This article reexamines Natsume S?seki’s intellectual trajectory through the concept of “spiritual pilgrimage.” In this study, spiritual pilgrimage does not refer to movement toward a sacred destination or religious conversion, but to recurring processes of cognitive displacement triggered by the anxiety of the modern self. From this perspective, angya (itinerancy), hi-ninj? (non-human sentiment), and sokuten kyoshi (following Heaven and relinquishing the self) are understood not as chronological stages but as overlapping modes of thought mobilized under different conditions of crisis.
The study first interprets S?seki’s angya as an aesthetic form of observation that juxtaposes landscapes and sensory impressions encountered through movement. It then examines hi-ninj? in Kusamakura as a cognitive attitude that suspends human sentiment and enables the contemplation of nature and objects. Within this framework emerges the world of mono, understood as the sensory presence of natural and material phenomena beyond human interests.
Finally, through S?seki’s Zen experience in Kamakura and the poems written after his severe illness at Sh?zenji, the article argues that sokuten kyoshi represents not religious enlightenment but an ethical orientation that regulates the self under unresolved conditions. S?seki’s spiritual pilgrimage thus remains fundamentally unfinished.
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동북아시아문화학회 [The Association of North-east Asian Cultures]
설립연도
2000
분야
복합학>학제간연구
소개
동북아시아 문화의 다양성과 정체성을 연구 토론하고, 지역내 문화 교류의 다양한 모습을 연구하고 문화변동의 큰 틀을 집적함으로써 우리 민족 문화 및 상대 민족의 문화적 터전을 이해하여 문화공동체적 특성을 계발하고 상호 관련성의 강화를 유도하는 학술활동을 통해 동북아시아의 문화발전에 이바지함.