'엘리자베스 코스텔로'에 나타난 철학적 문제의식

• 영문명: Philosophical Quest for Binary Oppositions in Elizabeth Costello - Deconstructing Logocentrism
• 발행기관: 한국영미문학교육학회
• 저자명: 최수(Su Choi)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미문학교육』영미문학교육 제19집 3호, 97~120쪽, 전체 24쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2015.12.09

영문 초록

When the South African novelist J.M. Coetzee published Elizabeth Costello, some critics responded with anger and derision to this fiction, claiming it is not a novel but an antinovel. Coetzee in this text probes into and deconstructs what we call “logocentrism” indicating a traditional preference in Western thought for logos which has came to denote an ultimate principle of truth after Plato’s binary system of philosophy. Logocentrism has resulted in the subservient position of writing to speech, and mythos to logos. Historically, Plato replaced mythos with logos, whereas Coetzee pinpoints the limitation of rational thought of the heritage of Platonic philosophy, critiquing and deconstructing the relationship between rational thought(logos) and sympathy(mythos). This paper aims to interrogate and destabilize discrete binary oppositions of Platonic logocentrism in terms of a deconstructive term, ‘supplement’ that cannot be thought under the concept of ontology. Coetzee replaces the systems of oppression, “the great Western discourse” with sympathy “that allows us to share at times the being of another.” Sympathy is none other than a supplement as the undecidable structure. Therefore reason and sympathy exist as supplementary.

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키워드

음성로고스주의 로고스 뮈토스 대리보충 공감 logocentrism logos mythos supplement sympathy