「필경사 바틀비」의 경제와 증여
Economy and Gift in ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’
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The present paper approaches Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” through an examination of the lawyer-narrator’s responsibility for Bartleby. The encounter of the two characters raises a question on the vaildity of the border between ‘economy’ and ‘aneconomy’ in Wall Street. Whereas economy is based on the principle of ‘exchange’, aneconomy evokes ‘gift’ in which one gives something without an anticipation of return. Bartleby’s formula and refusal threaten the system of the lawyer’s business, so disturb the profit guaranteed by exchange. To the narrator, a subject who has internalized the principle of capitalism, Bartleby appears as a ghost being strange in the place. Existing and not existing at the same time, it implicates the lawyer’s plight in responding to the scrivener as an other of capitalist economy dominated by exchange system, in a double bind of exchange and gift. This drives the narrator into an aporia in his decision and suggests a precondition of the ethics of the other in capitalist society.
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The present paper approaches Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” through an examination of the lawyer-narrator’s responsibility for Bartleby. The encounter of the two characters raises a question on the vaildity of the border between ‘economy’ and ‘aneconomy’ in Wall Street. Whereas economy is based on the principle of ‘exchange’, aneconomy evokes ‘gift’ in which one gives something without an anticipation of return. Bartleby’s formula and refusal threaten the system of the lawyer’s business, so disturb the profit guaranteed by exchange. To the narrator, a subject who has internalized the principle of capitalism, Bartleby appears as a ghost being strange in the place. Existing and not existing at the same time, it implicates the lawyer’s plight in responding to the scrivener as an other of capitalist economy dominated by exchange system, in a double bind of exchange and gift. This drives the narrator into an aporia in his decision and suggests a precondition of the ethics of the other in capitalist society.
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