자율·자치·우정의 공동체를 조직하는 뉴노멀 시대의 인문학 = Humanities of the New Normal Organizing a Community of Autonomy, Self-Regulation, and Friendship

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The COVID-19 pandemic, faced by mankind at the end of neoliberalism, asks people to rediscover an outdated lifestyle that has been regarded as an indicator of backwardness. As many have predicted, the scope of an individual’s physical life will shrink in the post-COVID-19 era with more active nonface- to-face contact. A low growth rate will be, however, a constant that will not change as it becomes part of the New Normal, which means that people should search for sustainable life based on this constant.
This study insists on a need for the New Normal to organize the ethics of autonomy, self-regulation, and hospitality by borrowing the poetic ideas of Kim Jong-cheol, who made post-growth arguments as a humanities scholar while being cautious against a rosy prospect for a technology-centered New Normal society. One of the ecological thinkers representing Korea since its modernization, he criticized the common view of development in history between Marxism and capitalism and maintained that man and nature should promote mutual survival and enjoyment. His Green Review published in 1991 is a humanistic practice for it and another humanistic effort to restore the integration of humanities that has withdrawn in the academic discipline system since industrialization.
Given these efforts, current humanities need to refuse the destiny of forced fusion and convergence according to the Fourth Industrial Revolution and organize implications of the New Normal into a sustainable ecological life. Specific methods include saving small farmers, reinforcing direct democracy, and building a community of friendship via humanities. These humanistic practices are no longer infeasible daydreams.