1930년대 최재서의 문화 기획 연구

Abstract

His criticism could be an example to look around cultural translation and bending for the modern liberalism of Western Europe and the ideology of individualism. He tried to record Korean literature within the universal form, so called culture, from start to finish and could prospect the development of Korean culture only through it. The culture meant the whole of human being's spirit in the classics accumulated from the period of ancient Greece and Rome here. and this definition was established based on the tradition of humanism in England that emphasized the completion of ideal human beings through cultural training. He introduced the theories of T.E.Hulme, I.Babbit, T.S.Eliot, H.Read, who were humanists in 20C, to Korean literary circle in the name of Intellectualism, and attempted to settle down the poverty and disorder in Korean literary circle through the principle of control and regulation based on humanism. But it could be only succeed through distinction. He considered the romantic literature in 19C as a symbol of literary disorder, handled KAPF literature as an emblem of anti-culturism, and tried to consolidate his own cultural ideology. Thus his early criticism showed a political inclination came from the culture that meant an cultural ideal or an ideology for self completion.