정약용 저작집(著作集) 체제(體制) 연구

Abstract

This paper clarified the meaning of the order of collected works of Jeong Yagyong, a leading scholar of the Joseon Dynasty in the 18th-19th century. Jeong Yagyong left a large volume of works covering almost all fields of traditional studies, and he classified and organized his own works. In a rare case for a scholar of the Joseon Dynasty, he conceived a complete collection of his own works and divided them into Collection of Classical Works and Collection of Literary Works. The Collection of Classical Works were arranged according to the order of six classics and four books, and the Collection of Literary Works consisted of poems, prose and miscellaneous articles. The order of his collection, which is found in Jeong’s own epitaph and manuscripts, was unique, but it was not reflected in the later published Collected Works of Yeoyudang, neither was research conducted to explore the meaning of the order itself. In this paper, the order of Jeong Yagyong’s collected works was compared with the general order of collected works of the Joseon literati, and secondly, the special characteristics of the order were traced to the origin, and thirdly, its significance in the intellectual history of the late Joseon Dynasty. This led to the following conclusions: Jeong Yagyong’s collected works have a distinct order from the general order in the collected works of the Joseon literati, and the origin of the significance is ① a new atmosphere of literary compilation, ② the tendency of challenge to the authority of Zhu Xi Studies in the intellectual society of the late Joseon Dynasty, ③ the expansion of Confucian ritual studies, and ④ the increase in interest in administrative studies. It was revealed that Jeong attempted to rebuild the Confucian world through his works, contrary to the academic tendency of the late Joseon Dynasty, which had a monopoly on Zhu Xi Studies.