모더니즘의 초극과 동양인식: 김기림의 30년대 중반 이후 비평을 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to study the transformation of "modern" and "east" in Kim Ki Lim's critics in the late 1930s. It is the critical point of this paper to unveil the interaction between Kim Ki Lim's thoughts on modern and east and socio-political context such as "Orientalism“ and "Overcoming Modern.” In the perspective of modernism, modern is located in time dimension dividing undeveloped/developed. However, in the 1930s, modern was being considered as a problem about spatial dimension. Concerns on modern or universality changed its realm of discussion from time dimension to spatial dimension. This change is a very crucial point which make us understand "Orientalism" and "Overcoming Modern Theory" proclaimed in Japan during World War II. The universal modern of the West no longer can justify its universality. Now the claimed universal modern became the specificity of the West. Though Kim Ki-Lim agreed with Japanese's assertion, the fall of the West, he cannot turn back to the East which he criticized as "sentimentalism." He was so overwhelmed by his belief to "science" which remained untouched even when he censured values sustaining the modern of the West. Therefore Kim Ki-Lim's silence is not "resistance" but compulsed silence by aporia of thoughts.