근대적 주권을 넘어서는 연대의 모색 -아감벤의 정치철학을 중심으로- = A Search for Solidarity Beyond Modern Sovereignty: Focused on Agamben`s political philosophy

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The process of the establishment of modern sovereignty involves violence(Gewalt). The concept of popular sovereignty was not realized in modern times. Putting up the natural law, modernism declared that power does not come from a supernatural being. However, this is also the evidence that the natural state has to join hands with violence in order to form modern sovereignty. After all, modern sovereignty became sovereign power(potere sovrano) stained with violence by acquiring the law(Recht) called the natural law. Sovereign is merely another name of sovereign power. Hobbes explained the natural state fluently, but so-called classical social contract theorists including Hobbes failed to appreciate the real meaning of modern sovereignty. Because the concept of modern sovereignty itself is coupled with violence, the concept of sovereignty in Korea is not `a certain goal to be attained ultimately` either. Korean regimes in the past, whether they were military or non-military one, are not different in that they established modern sovereignty while admitting neo-liberalism. And for this reason, if one says that military regimes are despotic and non-military ones are democratic, it means that he does not understand `the present` of Korea properly. Korea is an epigone imperial nation that practices modernism demanded by the U.S. and that titled neo-liberalism sincerely. Moreover, the international food chain in the neo-liberal world order is reproduced exactly as it is. In other words, Korea has the structure that curries favor with powers including the U.S. and, at the same time, exploits people in underdeveloped countries for survival. It is in the structure that (for example) permanent staff survives through reading the face of capitalists while taking advantage of contingent workers` poor working conditions. In this sense, the traditional dualism of rulers (capitalists) and the ruled (workers) may have to be abandoned. Permanent staff members who go out with metal pipe in hand as strikebreakers against contingent workers` struggles are another modern epigone sovereign and epigone ruler. In order to find solidarity beyond modern sovereignty, we should see modernism not from the concept of sovereignty but from the concept of government(gouvernement). In addition, we should admit that both permanent staff and contingent workers and both an epigone imperial nation and an underdeveloped country are bandits expelled from modern sovereignty and therefore they are impotent. A bandit is one with freedom and an impotent one is one who cannot or does not adjust himself to the order of modern sovereignty. These people can play freely with the order established by modern sovereignty and even can collapse the order. This is the duty given to modern homo sacer.

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