베를린과 도쿄의 근대 도시대중 ‘직장인’: 크라카우어의 <직장인>과 아오노 스에키치의 <샐러리맨의 공포시대>를 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine the social implications and emergence of the salaryman as an urban mass in modern Berlin and Tokyo by comparing Siegfried Kracauer’s (1889-1966) “Die Angestellten” and Suekichi Aono’s (1890-1961) “Salariman no Kyohujidai.” With the development of global capitalism, the salaryman class emerged as a common transnational mode of metropolitan life, and it was imperative for thinkers of the time to conduct an in-depth analysis and adopt a critical stance toward this newly emerging class. Kracauer and Aono focused on this class and maintained a critical stance toward it, particularly in the distinct spaces of Berlin and Tokyo during the same period. It is likely no coincidence that both