고통의 감수성과 희망의 윤리 - 한국 현대문화와 고전/ 역사의 유비적 대응과 성찰성 탐색

Abstract

This paper analyzes the contemporary Korean cultural symptom as like entertaining TV show of eating program (meokbang) and emotional rhetoric which is used by SNS, noticeably biased emotionally positive, unlike dominant social atmosphere with regard to anxiety, crisis, and catastrophe. In this phenomenon, it shed new light on the emotional asymmetry which lost, exclusion and oblivion of negative emotion as like anguish, sadness and anxiety, and language for inner mind. To re-think about this affective asymmetry, it references Korean traditional / classical literary text, a genre of reflective writing of personal life history which was written by Joseon literati with hanmun (Chinese character), especially focusing on the representation way of anguish and sadness. First, by analysing Joseon literati’s rhetorics of anguish and sadness which were written in the writing texts of auto-biographies, it investigates that the person can be empowered by building ones’ principle as like philosophy and belief toward human beings and the world, getting moral through reading and engraving respectable teacher’s comments, and cherishing social recognition about oneself. Second, by analysing Joseon elites’ writings about woman, it explains that the writers try to have social / historical responsibility through recording the woman’s valuable attitude toward their painful situation and virtuous behavior for overcoming such suffering life, who never get any social capital as like political and cultural power, and script (hanmun). Third, it argues that the behavior of writing itself can make endure their hard times and play an effect on healing their trauma by making solidarity through sympathetic bond and communicating between subject (writer) and other (the dead, and contemporary and later reader). To sum up, this paper researches the possibility of the ethics of hope in the contemporary society of crisis and anxiety, and suggests an academic experiment through re-positioning traditional culture / classical literature as humanistic asset which can give light on this existential and social issues.