프레드릭 제임슨(Fredric Jameson)의 폭력비판

• 영문명: Fredric Jameson’s Critique of Violence
• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: 강의혁
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제50집 2호, 5~26쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2018.09.30

영문 초록

This paper analyzes the ways in which Fredric Jameson comments on, critiques, and theorizes historical violence. While he never launched a full-fledged theory of violence, his idea of social antagonism, collectivity, and Utopian politics demonstrates a clearly discernible position on violence. As Jameson’s Utopian politics is grounded upon a profound reflection on the historical nature of systemic violence, his scholarship suggests a lens through which to locate the collective Utopian aspirations that cannot be reduced to factional interest and/or even antagonistic class relations. While the issue of violence is usually approached as a specifically political issue, and thus often led to a countering political violence and/or a provisional legal remedy, Jameson’s critical methodology suggests that a genuine attempt to deal with violence will have to consider the embedded nature of political violence in the areas of the economic and the cultural. In a nutshell, Jameson’s method is the sublation of present historical violence―collectively building up an alternative, though long-term, vision of a “different” society from within.

키워드

Fredric Jameson dialectics violence antagonism Utopian politics capitalism historicization