조지훈 시론에 나타난 해석의 변증법 – 문학론, 시창작론, 모더니티론의 내적 연속성을 중심으로

This paper attempted to investigate the inner continuity of Cho Ji-hoon’s poetics by confirming the logical structure of interpretive dialectic that penetrated his early literary theory, poetry creation theory, and modernity theory. In Aesthetic Literature and Art History(유미주의문예소고) (1940), Ji-hoon neutralizes the dichotomy between art and life and shows an aesthetic orientation that asserts the absoluteness of beauty. His agenda develops as Basic Tasks of Literature(문학의 근본과제) (1948.10), a full-fledged pure literature theory that discusses the independence and essence of literature after liberation. In the Principles of Poetry(시의 원리), Jihoon presents a theory of poetry creation centered on ‘wonder(驚異)’ and ‘reflection(省察)’. The dialectic of wonder and reflection is a philosophical process that creates the ‘aporia’ of an ‘amazing’ experience into a ‘theoria’ called poetry. Poetry is the result of the poet’s ‘interpretation’ made in the antagonism of wonder and reflection being formalized into artistic language. Ji-hoon’s interpretive dialectic is expressed in the 1950s’ modernity theory as the philosophy of “moment(순간),” which discussed the relationship between “time” and “eternity.” “moment” is a way in which eternity is revealed in time, and Ji-hoon’s “moment” refers to a “time(때)” that incorporates true novelty among “meetings” of the past and present, eternity and time. Ji-hoon’s interpretive dialectic in the relationship between art and life, woner and reflection, and eternity and time aims for an aesthetic existence as an ethical human being, that is, a whole being, who pursues universality based on respect for beauty, and also has a point of contact with F. Schiller’s concept of “aesthetic existence.”