김수영과 함석헌(1) - 함석헌의 생명 사상과 김수영의 혁명론

Abstract

This article aims to examine the influence relationship between Kim Su-young and Ham Seok-heon, and to examine the characteristics and significance of Kim Su-young’s revolutionary theory according to Ham’s idea of life. While looking back on the April 19 Revolution, Kim Su-young pointed to Ham Seok-heon’s writings as an example of raising the alarm in the situation at the time, which had fallen into complacency and selfishness. Kim Su-young’s interest in Ham Seok-heon’s thought requires more careful attention in that it is not just a one-time thing if traced in terms of media and discourse. Kim Su-yong was connected with Ham Seok-heon in that he was acquiring an indigenous and subjective perspective on Korean society at the time through the April 19 Revolution as a medium and was constantly thinking about the revolution after the revolution. More specifically, for Ham Seok-heon, the revolution was a kind of movement for life, so it was inseparable from the idea of life. For him, the revolution did not stop at changing the external system, but was a process of discovering and changing the inner self of man, and extending it to the whole, such as the nation and mankind. In this respect, the April 19 Revolution, which was merely a regime change for him, was a failed revolution in the end, and the society at the time required a movement to continue the spirit of the revolution. Kim Su-young also discovered the individual or the subject as the driving force of external revolution according to this point of view, but he wanted to continuously pursue renewal at the individual level. And the individual level revolution tried to aim for solidarity that expands to others or the whole through the practice of love. This article attempts to reconsider the point of view of Kim Su-young seeking the fundamental essence of the revolution and seeking out the direction of Korean society after the April 19 Revolution, and thus positioning him simply as the April 19 poet.