금융과 페르소나(persona): 금융의 정치 철학적 이해
Finance and Persona: a Philosophical Understanding of Modern Finance
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프리드리히 니체와 앨프레드 화이트헤드에 따르면, 근대 서양의 존재론이 범한 치명적인 오류는 현실의 구조가 언어의 구조와 같다고 착각하는 데 있다. 언어는 주어-술어 구조를 띠고 있는데, 현실도 이 구조를 띠고 있다고 착각해서, 허구적인 언어적 주어를 현실적으로 존재하고 있는 주체로 잘못 설정하고 있다. 이 허구적인 주체 개념이 바로 인격 개념이다. 본 논문은 이러한 허구적인 인격 개념이 어떻게 자본주의 금융이 발전하는 데 토대를 이루는지 분석할 것이다. 본 논문의 분석하는 역사적 시기와 장소는 17세기 후반 영국이다. 이 시기에 영국에서 근대적 형태의 은행업이 시작됐으며 동시에 근대적 주체 개념인 “인격” 개념이 존 로크 등에 의해 철학적으로 발전한다. 동시에 유한책임 주식회사와 국가 또한 독립적인 추상적 인격성이 추상적인격체로 독립성을 획득한다. 이 추상적 인격 개념은 사회적 관계를 “배타적 소유”와 “채권-채무” 관계로 환원하고, 이 환원이 근대 금융의 존재론적 바탕을 이룬다. 배타적 재산권은 행사하지만 책임을 져야 할 때는 채권으로 변모해 그 책임을 회피하는 제도가 바로 근대 금융의 본질이다. 그리고 영원하고 독립적인 인격성을 지니게 된 근대적 집단을 채무자로 전락시킴으로 근대 금융의 채권자들은 자신들의 특권을 크게 강화한다.
Abstract
According to F. Nietzsche and A. N. Whitehead, the fatal error of the modern Western ontology is to mistakenly assume that the structure of reality is the same as the structure of language, and to misplace the fictional linguistic subject as a realistic subject. This fictional concept of the subject is the concept of person. This paper will analyze how this fictional concept of person forms the basis for the development of modern finance. The historical period and place of analysis of the paper is England in the late 17th century. At this time and place, the modern form of banking began, and the concept of person was developed philosophically by English intellectuals, especially by John Locke. And at the same time, joint-stock companies and the English nation state acquired their independent abstract personhood. The fictional concept of person has reduced social relations to “exclusive property rights” and “creditor-debtor relations,” and this reduction forms the ontological basis of modern finance. In modern finance where property rights and creditors’ rights are mixed, property owners excercise exclusive property rights but avoid responsibility for the exercise by being transformed to creditors. Furthermore, property owners’ privilege were extended when the modern groups—joint-stock companies and the nation state—who are endowed with eternal and independent personhood are reduced to debtors for the property owners.
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