트랜스내셔널 지성사 다시 쓰기: 식민지 시기 ‘한국적 니체’의 생애연구, 1920〜1945

초록

Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most influential and controversial modern thinkers in Europe. As an intellectual idol and the central symbol of the post-Christian and post-Modern era, Nietzsche was widely consumed in East Asia at the turn of the Nineteenth century. A few Korean intellectuals also became ardent followers of Zarathustra during Japanese colonial rule. In order to reappraising the characteristics and historical legacies of Korean intellectuals’ encounter with Nietzsche between 1920-1945, the paper raises the following questions. Why had been Korean intellectuals attracted to this German prophet of extremity, and how had they appropriated and propagated Nietzschean philosophy for the purpose of reforming traditional Korean society and thus modernizing colonialized Korea? How differently/commonly Japanese, Korean, Chinese intellectuals had received and perceived Nietzsche’s works and collectively contributed to establishing East Asian discourse on Nietzsche? By answering these questions, the author intends to re/over-write an alternative transnational intellectual history based on the mode of ‘border thinking.’

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