역사와 문학의 시간: 역사철학과 포스트모던 역사담론 그리고 유토피아

• 영문명: History and Time of Literature: Philosophy of History, Postmodern Historiography, and Utopia
• 발행기관: 한국영미문학교육학회
• 저자명: 이준영(Jun Young Lee)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미문학교육』영미문학교육 제22집 3호, 119~134쪽, 전체 16쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2018.12.30

영문 초록

Time as an essential factor of making the setting of literature eventually leads to the idea of history since history in general has been regarded as a lineal flow or multilateral accumulation of time itself. For understanding productively the time in literature, this essay attempts to overcome the oppositional view of history between the traditional philosophy of history represented by Hegel and the postmodern discourse of historiography such as M. Foucault and G. Deleuze. Although the former sees history as a teleological progress of homogeneous time and the latter considers it as a contingent transformation of fragmented heterogenous time, the vision of utopia could offer a common ground for mediating their contending views of history. In relation to this, this essay argues that W. Benjamin’s utopian discourse of time and history should synthesize the Hegelian philosophy of history and the postmodern historiography of Foucault and Deleuze in a dialectical way because Benjamin’s angel of history, which sees history as “one single catastrophe” of fragmented piles of time, overcomes totalistic teleology and nihilistic fragmented contingency by the dialectical image of Utopia. In this respect, Benjamin’s view of time and history could extend the time of literature from teleological progress into heterogenous and contingent coexistence of the past and the present with utopian inspiration.

키워드

시간 역사 헤겔 푸코 들뢰즈 벤야민 역사철학 포스트모더니즘 time history Hegel Foucault Deleuze Benjamin Philosophy of History Postmodernism