근대 文明과 세계 인식의 전환에 관한 연구

Abstract

Civilization is a historical concept which contains nationalistic universalism of Europe. In Eastern Asia, civilization precipitated while attempting to melt European civilization into their socio-cultural structure, and during that process, modern paradigm was planted within. Primarily, civilization was handled with much of governmental care, and eventually merged with nationalism. “civilization” amalgamated with the world, eastern hemisphere, and nationalism in order to function as a mechanism which created modernized identity from uniformed characteristics and self recognition as deficient ‘others’Civilization helped the establishment of national integrity and formation of perspective to scope the world. Since dismantlement of Chinese cultural heritage which caused by European/Japense Orientalism, Korea had to found national identity in order to coexist with civilized world. However, accepting western modernism and ideologies created by Restauration Meiji as epitome of civilization, barbaric Chosun became a lagging nation which had to modernize in already established and formalized way. Weak national identity made Koreans to acknowledge Japanese colonial rule as a timely rain which could re-navigate them to become more civilized.