사상계 동양 담론 분석

Abstract

This thesis analyzed the Oriental discourse in Sasanggye, a representative educational magazine of 1950~1960s. The characteristics of the Oriental discourse in Sasanggye are defined by the magazine’s editing ideology, the colonial view of history from the government school under Japanese imperialism, and self－consciousness and historical consciousness of postwar/new generation. The enlightening modernization theory regarding the magazine’s editing ideology is a common desire of the writing staff shown in Sasanggye. Confucianism, pointed out as an ‘Oriental thing,’ was combined with the colonial view of history and was pointed out as a regressive ideology hindering postwar reconstruction. The feudalism of Confucianism was seen to disturb democracy and economic development. Meanwhile, in the view of the traditional Oriental studies centering around China, there are different symbols of China/Chinese Communist Party. In particular, with the contrast between sophisticated China in the past that had created excellent educational books and the Chinese Communist Party occupied by immoral and ignorant Communists, Orientalists attempted to establish ‘Oriental things’ as a humanistic value that must be revived. But as the efforts of historical world to recognize Korean history independently proliferated in the mid-1960s, the flow of the Oriental discourse changed. The main issue was no longer ‘Orient/Oriental thing’, but future-oriented ‘Korea/Korean thing’. Sasanggye symposium held in 1962 was an event in literary history in which literary circles participated in such flow. Later, this was intensified into traditional positive theory by the new generation.