이론의 탈정치화와 문학연구의 가능성

• 영문명: The De-politicization of Theory and the Possibility of the Literary Studies
• 발행기관: 한국비평이론학회
• 저자명: 김용규(Yong-Gyu Kim)
• 간행물 정보: 『비평과 이론』제12권 2호, 5~36쪽, 전체 32쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2007.12.30

영문 초록

  This paper aims to examine the contemporary situation of theory and suggest the possibility of literary studies as an alternative to the situation. Today, the nature of theory seems to be radically changed in that a new relationship is being shaped among the institutional and ideological fields of theory, such as the university, the nation-state, and the capital. Two important phenomena has appeared in relation with the change of theory. First, theory tends to be de-politicized as the field of theory is rapidly incorporated into the cultural logic of global capitalism in which the capital tends to get out of the boundary of the nation-state and take transnational aspects. In modern capitalism, the capital has traditionally collaborated with the nation-state in the work of nation-building and the making of national culture. So the nation-state has given priority to the literary studies for constructing an ideological framework of national culture under the auspices of the capital. In the 1960s, ‘theory’ arose as radical intellectuals" challenge to the nationally privileged conception of the literary studies. So theory took on political and critical meanin gs. But now the nature of theory is newly shaped by the formation of the new relationship between the nation-state and the capital. Second, theory has tendency to be more practical and instrumentalist rather than critical. This tendency is not unrelated with the change of the universities in global capitalism. The universities seems to become the ‘enterprise universities’ dominated by the logic of excellence and efficiency. Even the humanities in them is forced to follow the logic of the capital. The turn of literary into cultural studies partly reflects this situation. In it, theory tends to become more efficient and instrumental. By critically examining this situation of theory, this paper tries to find an alternative thinking for coping with the present of theory in the new possibility of the literary studies.

목차

1. 지식의 상품화와 이론의 소비양식의 변화
2. 대학의 변화와 이론의 도구주의화
3. 문학연구의 새로운 가능성
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Abstract

키워드

이론 탈정치화 문학연구 문화연구 근대문학의 종언 감응 지각 들뢰즈 theory de-politicization literary studies cultural studies the end of modern literature affect percept Deleuze