‘타자성 철학’의 현대교육학적 함의 -Derrida를 중심으로-

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to clarify the character of ‘aliter,’ which is the central concept of Derrida's philosophy, and to discuss its significance in postmodern educational thinking. For this study, the paper first examined the concept of Levinas's ‘aliter,’ which Derrida critically succeeded to the concept of aliter, and analyzed his criticism for this. Second, the paper examined the character of aliter, which was clarified by Derrida, and third, considered the way postmodern educational thinking has thought through the concept of this aliter. The concepts of aliter in Levinas and Derrida have difference in a sense that they attempted the work of restoring aliter, which had been marginalized by being ousted from the center in the entity based on traditional metaphysics. However, Derrida points out that what Levinas established the totaliter aliter as the subject, which the entity entertains warmly, is failing to escape from the existing philosophy in binary opposition. He established the concept of 'aliter,' who exists as the 'ghost of living with being dead,' with maintaining the heterogeneous element inside it while denying the pure self-identical entity. Meanwhile, he attempts to ultimately change the entity completely by de-constructing it, which is a foundation of modern pedagogy, and by again making the entity, through the concept of aliter. This study clarified that the concept of aliter is setting the foundation of educational philosophy in harmony and cooperation, of proceeding with living together, and not conflict and confrontation. It identifies aliter as 'I and aliter' exist in the close and correlational relationship of being mutually entangled, as well as establishing the logic that needs to deconstruct the philosophical foundation in pedagogy based on Cogito. Also, this study inquired into a point that modern educational thinking needs to focus on the place of life where 'I and aliter are crossed each other,' rather than the so-called individual and its inner strength and ability, thereby having suggested that education is what leads in order to be insighted the significance, which is created just in the place of its life.