이상의 모조기독－이상 문학에 나타난 기독교 모티프와 자본주의 비판－

Abstract

The USA’ and USSR’ victories in the Asian Pacific War, and the colonial Korea’s liberation from Japanese empire produced the upsurge of the Korean people’s ethnic nationalism, which necessitated the subjectivization of post-colonial Koreans, and the construction of the universality. With this in mind, this essay examines the images of post-War Germany and its people constructed in the post-colonial South Korean discussive space. The post-War Germany and its people were seen based upon the criteria of the peace of the post-War world, democracy, and democratization of Germany. And they were represented as un-democratic existences. Moreover, the German intellectuals were denied of their subjectivity in the contemporary democratic education and enlightenment of undemocratic Germans. This de-subjectivized all the German people in terms of post-War democracy, implying that Germany, and, by extension, the European world could no longer be a model to South Korean people. The de-subjectivization works displaced German totalitarianism and existentialism from the public discursive space. And the de-subjectivization de-historicized modern history of Germany, and also nullified the critical reflections upon modern civilization which had been made in the 1930s and the War-period. The nullification supported the post-War political global hegemony of America, and the contemporary ideational hegemony of modernism and democracy represented by America. Moreover, the nullification illustrated the concrete historical progress that America became the post-War universality in South Korean discursive space. This constituted the post-War/post-colonial historical implications of the imaginations of post-War Germany and its people based upon democracy and democratization.