19-20세기 지리산권 江右學者의 尊周意識

Abstract

This study presents an investigation into the conscious world of Kangwoo(江右) intellectuals around the activities to exalt Jonjuuishik(尊周意識) that swept over the Kangwoo region like a vogue from the latter half of the 19th century to the early 20th century. Jonjuuishik was a central axis in the history of mentality that maintained around the central political circles since Japanese invasion of Korea in 1592. Some point out that it was buried in them over time and eventually failed to cross over the threshold of modern times in shackles, but there is no doubt that it was part of the mainstream of Joseon society until the end of the 19th century. Considering that there was no research on the influences of the activities of Jonjuuishik, which used to proceed only in the central region, on the local regions, the present study looked into them with three cases. During the period, there were many scholars active in the Kangwoo region, and they were still using the era name of Yi Zong of Ming Dynasty, namely ‘Chongzhen.’ They were criticized for being unable to read the times right and trapped in pre-modern thinking just with such a fragmentary phenomenon. However, the intellectuals of the Kangwoo region just accepted it according to the logic of their times just like the plan for northern expedition or Daemyeonguiri formed after the Samjeondo Humiliation had become the logic of the times according to time. For instance, the phenomenon of Jonjuuishik caused in the Kangwoo region by the activities to exalt the Ming dynasty flower and worship Park Jin-yeong in the Nampyeong Mun family was a cause of their own developed by their desperate efforts to heighten their excellent ancestry and strengthen their family status as local 사족 after many years of alienation. The sense of identity of intellectuals sought after at Mori or Nongwoljeong through Jeong On and Park Myeong-bu was a historical product of the times, as well. The spirit of Chunchudaeui of Jeong On and others emerged as an alternative when the crisis of internal and external trouble increased including the invasion of foreign power, the ambitions of Japanese Empire, and the destructed feudal order of traditional Confucianism at the end of Joseon. The exaltation phenomenon of Jonjuuishik in the Kangwoo region was the best choice and opportunity to go through the times for Kangwoo scholars as the intellectuals of the times.