E. P. 톰슨 사상구조의 건축미학

Abstract

This article aims at understanding the currently meaning of the thought of Edward Palmer Thompson, a historical materialist and Marxist. This means an effort to overcome the desperate situation of the ‘Absent Marxism’ in an era of globalization through Thompson’s eyes. This article will reflect upon the era of the past 15 years, and then think of ‘now, here’, and at last revisit the traditional materialist concept of ‘lived experience’, which is pushed left by postmodernism, deconstruction, and Althusserian poststructuralism etc. However it is not a ‘known life’ but a ‘lived experience’ that goes through the core of Thompson’s thought structure. If we seek the four main pillars which shore up Thompson’s architectural aesthetics. we can probably find empiricism, historicism, humanism and moralism. In fact these concepts have been abandoned a long time ago by mechanical materialist and post-structualist. But for Thompson, these concepts are very important. man cannot be a marxist without these concepts. Because they meet at a place, where a historical subject stands. Capitalism is globalized and Verdinglichung turns the historical subject into a simple bystander. If we read the meaning of Thompson’s currency into the current social and political situation, it can be found in the materialist concept of Subject. We can never think of Thompson’s architectural aesthetics without this concept. And we can never imagine a hopeful future without Thompson’s Subject.