몸의 움직임에 주목하는 교양교육의 의미

Abstract

This article considers a way of understanding of the relationship between oneself, others, and the world that is centered on the sensibility, emotions, and sensitivity of the body, which have not received much attention in the tradition of liberal arts education, agreeing with the responsibility of having to cultivate integrated and universal ability of the learners of liberal arts education. To this end, a philosopher Susan K. Langer’s concepts of the ‘symbol’ and the ‘abstract process’ are considered to be concepts upon which these liberal arts education classes can be grounded. Langer defines the symbolic form of arts as an expression of human’s inner life and an output of mental function that can be seen by objectifying the essence of human emotions. I think the key process that makes this possible is in the unique abstraction process in arts, and this is because Langer’s concepts can be considered to be an appropriate foundation for constructing the meaning of arts and the process itself. Specifically, this process of the abstraction can be understood as a deductive reasoning through which the abstract concepts are derived from general ideas. However, in the field of arts, it can be understood as a process of calculating the logical form that grasps the organic relation between the whole and the partial even though it is invisible; eventually, this is a kind of logic that can help us develop an ability to look at our lives intuitively and syntagmatically. This article aims to assert that this ability is a universal competency that our age demands. In order to develop these ideas more specifically and to understand them vividly, I observed the characteristics of the artistic process by observing and interviewing the actual liberal arts class which focuses on the movement on the body. Henceforth, I believe there will be various educational meanings that can be derived from this process of formation of our body identity.