국가적 참사로 발생한 타자의 죽음과 사회적 애도에 관한 고찰

Abstract

Korean society has experienced a somber social atmosphere in the last five years due to the Corona19 pandemic and the Itaewon disaster. This situation can be classified as a national disaster that affects the mental and mental state of the whole country. The national disaster, like any other ordeal, leaves us with a scar of pain. The national disaster leaves a sense of social shock, hurt, and loss and requires a corresponding act of mourning. This paper philosophically considers death during the national disaster and examines the direction of social mourning to heal this wound. The study focused on the thoughts of American ethical philosopher Judith Butler. According to Butler, the national disaster reveals the vulnerability of human society, and when we face this vulnerability and participate in mourning, social integration can be overcome. So, the direction of social mourning that Butler explains is ‘the attitude of responsibility, not retribution, the vulnerability and precarity of life revealed as the true form of a national disaster,' and ‘mourning that unites society.’ A practical philosophical plan was suggested for applying this to Korean society. The first is what Butler calls willless sensitivity, the second is self-thinking and phenomenological parentheses, and the third is social integrated growth. This study is significant because it laid the foundation for developing more specific future methodologies and programs for social mourning.