코난 도일의 『셜록 홈즈의 모험』과 발터 벤야민의 흔적 이론 = Conan Doyle`s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Walter Benjamin`s Notion of Trace

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In Doyle`s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Holmes`s acclaimed science of detection is characterized by the reasoning power which seems uncontaminated by his personal bias or emotional involvement. The literary detective`s methods, invested with machine-like precision, are presented to us as empirical and objective. Yet readers soon realize that Holmes`s science of detection is based on the normative perspective which reduces the diversity of individual phenomena to a common denominator. His examination of the traces left in the personal belongings is predicated on a categorical understanding of the identity as constitutive of social and rather impersonal denominators. This combination of reasoning and normative thinking in Holmes`s power of identification returns us to Walter Benjamin`s account of the bourgeois domestic interior in the nineteenth century Paris. Benjamin locates the domestic interior in the context of the alienation which threatens the bourgeois`s identity as private individual. The emergence of the interior is registered with the bourgeois reaction to the alienation as such documented by Karl Marx. The bourgeois domestic interior is a private space where the inhabitant possesses objects by divesting them with commodity values. Accordingly the interior is imbued with these traces of occupation. Benjamin attributes the origin of the detective novel to the bourgeois interior. This notion of the detective novel casts new light on Holmes`s power of identification.

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