오스기 사카에(大杉栄)의 아나키즘과 염상섭의 ‘자아’론

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to clarify the ideological differences between Korea and Japan’s modern literature while reading the writings of Osugi Sakae and Yeom, Sang-seop under the perspective of ‘self’. As we all know, Osugi was a thinker and Yeom, Sang-seop was a novelist, although they had different origins, they breathed in the democratic atmosphere of the Daisho period and had an ideological bond based on human networks. They were particularly sharing the ‘self’ awakening that contributed to individual discoveries and the anarchism that advocated it ideologically. More specifically, for them, the problem of ‘self’ was associated with the fundamental purpose of breaking up not only the existing power relationship but also breaking away from the external revolution of only partial improvement. In fact, the ‘self-revolution’ they organized was embodied in a revolution of self to liberate women and workers from the position of subordinate subject, and was called for a life-revolution that should continue at their living sites. However, if the ‘self-revolution’ was focused on expanding the specificity of the individual to a lateral dimension with the aim of realizing the syndicalisme in the labor field for Osugi, it was a more pressing task for Yeom, Sang-seop to implement the ideology of ‘Joseon’ on a longitudinal axis. As such, the ‘self-revolution’ in Korea and Japan during the modern era was not only a universal issue that crossed the geographical boundaries of East Asia, but also a matter that stimulated the social and cultural specificities of each country.