T. S. 엘리엇과 St. 아우구스티누스

• 영문명: T. S. Eliot and St. Augustinus: A Vision of Double Bind
• 발행기관: 한국T.S.엘리엇학회
• 저자명: 이규명
• 간행물 정보: 『T. S. 엘리엇연구』제23권 제1호, 61~92쪽, 전체 32쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2013.06.30

영문 초록

The paper has the aim to search for why humans should feel spiritual emptiness in spite of material fullness. This is the epistemological reality that humans differ from animals loyal to satiety of stomach. Humans are created with reason as the tool to admire and worship the amazing grace of the Creator and get closer to divinity leading humans to heaven. Eliot as a kind of common human pursued through his poems the ultimate themes such as origin of existences, goal of life, and good / evil, while Augustinus that relied on The Absolute God as the donor of reason as a part of divinity told us them in terms of theology. In the sense, Eliot pursuing the ultimate themes like life and death and also Augustinus resorting to the sacred providence of God, mean representing common people’s desire trying to grasp eternity in spite of having transient longevity. The only two things that we humans including Eliot and Augustinus can know are the terrible realities that we are absurdly thrown into the world and necessarily face with death as the unavoidable and gloomy termination. The pious vision from the saint of Hippo on Eliot’s some ultimate themes is aimed for the practice of ‘caritas’ that means sacred love to both the Absolute and ordinary people. In conclusion, R. Descartes depending upon human’s own apparent thought rather than turning to God, F. Nietzsche declaring the death of God, and K. Marx disregarding divinity and reducing human to molecular state would commit errors because they misused reason given by God that they hated, and produced the proposition of ‘Cogito ergo sum’, the Birth of Tragedy, and the Capital, which also can be recognized as a reality of double bind.

목차

Ⅰ. 묵시의 현전

Ⅱ. 존재의 의미: 「텅 빈 사람들」, 「게론티언」

Ⅲ. 구원의 탐색: 「하마」, 「어느 부인의 초상」

Ⅳ. 구원의 가능성: 『네 사중주』, 『황무지』

Ⅴ. 결론: 이중구속

키워드

엘리엇 아우구스티누스 카리타스 「번트 노튼」 「게론티언」 『황무지』 T. S. Eliot St. Augustinus caritas “Burnt Norton,” “Gerontion,” The Waste Land