섬사람들의 탈경계적 공간인식과 지적전통 －유교이념과 신안군 사례를 중심으로－

Abstract

According to the prejudice that Korean society has had so far, an ‘island’ has been regarded as ‘space of isolation’. However, in fact, those living in an island have Confucian ideas that they recognize their space as ‘space for communication’. This researcher focuses on islands from the aspects of trans-border spatial cognition,and this article considers the characteristics of islanders’ intellectual tradition centering around Confucian ideas and the case of Shinan-gun. And the paper has gained the findings as follows:First, it is about the relationship between islanders’ lives and Confucian culture. It has been found that such things as remaining ‘cultural relics’, ‘ancient documents’,and ‘the structure of private houses’ accept the environment of an island, and there exists an island’s original Confucian culture that has been transformed and developed. Second, the study has analyzed from the records written by the exiles, hermits, or native intellectuals that there have been various cases of trans-border spatial cognition on an island. It has been formed as a kind of intellectual tradition, and sometimes it shows the aspects of development that emerges academically. Third, the study has examined with the case of Haui-do ‘Kim Yeon’ that the unique spatial cognition and intellectual tradition have succeeded continually. Kim Yeon’s life has a lot of implications regarding an island’s environment for humanities and intellectual tradition. This study has verified the fact that an island is not culturally isolated space but space of communication. Confucian ideas that have been changed and developed according to the environment that an island has are characterized by having stronger acceptability than the land’s. This has affected islanders’ intellectual tradition significantly and has been transmitted as unique environment for humanities.