블레이크는 『유리젠의 서』에서 신화적 상상력으로 우주의 창조와 인류의 탄생을 노래한다. 블레이크의 우주의 창조는 그리스 신화와 『성경』에서 우주의 창조과정과 다른 아주 색다른 그만의 독창적인 상상력의 세계이다. 블레이크는 착하고 선한 하느님이 아닌 분노하는 유리젠이 지옥처럼 우주를 창조해 가는 과정을 이 시에 묘사한다. 더불어 블레이크는 인간의 창조과정도 그리스 신화와 『성경』에서처럼 진흙으로 인간을 창조하는 것이 아니라 영혼 세계에 살고 있던 유리젠의 아들들과 딸들의 신체가 축소되어 인류의 새로운 종족으로 탄생되는 것을 노래한다. 이는 그 당시에 영국인들의 심리상태와 사회상을 작품에 이미지로 반영한 것이다. 그래서 우리는 블레이크의 『유리젠의 서』를 읽으면서 그의 독창적인 상상력의 세계로 빠져들 수밖에 없다.

Recognizing that the debate on the original form of the Seokguram Grotto is closely related to the mythologization of the Seokguram Grotto, which is far from factual understanding, this paper is prepared to restore the Seokguram Grotto based on scientific facts. To this end, we will first analyze its active meaning and fiction from three directions: the founding legend, the rediscovery story, and the concept and discourse of the Line of sight for Buddha statue (對佛像視準線), which have contributed to the mythologization of the Seokguram Grotto. The original restoration of the Seokguram Grotto should be based on a scientific understanding of the Seokguram space. However, past debates and restoration attempts have been based on imagination and not on scientific knowledge. Therefore, Chapter 3 attempts a scientific analysis of the light environment of thr Seokguram Grotto and critically examines the existing errors and realistic mythological images to correct the public's spatial perception of Seokguram's architecture and to propose a rational restoration of Seokguram's architectural space.

본 연구는 신화적 장면을 그린 고전기의 아티카 지역의 도기화 가운데 대부분의 인물들이 고전기 양식으로 표현된 것과 달리 신상만이 아르카익 양식으로 묘사된 사례들을 선별하여 이러한 도상학적 현상의 의미를 살펴보고자 한다. 이들 아티카 지역의 고전기 도기화에서 의도적으로 아르카익 양식을 차용한 것은 양식적인 대조를 통하여 아르카익 양식의 신상이 고전기 양식으로 표현된 신화적 인물들 보다 더 예스러운 존재임을 드러내기 위한 의도로 사용되었다. 이들 고전기에 아티카의 도기화가들이 상대적 시간을 표현하기 위한 하나의 ‘고전적 규범’으로 아르카익 양식을 사용하였다는 사실은 고전기 미술에서 아르카익 양식이 지닌 시각적 역사성이 당대의 미술가들과 관람자들에게 공유되었음을 드러낸다는 점에서 미술사적으로 의미가 있다.

A primary purpose of this paper is to critically evaluate Professor P. Singh’s Article, “Colonised’s Madness, Colonisers’Modernity and International Law: Mythological Materialism in the East-West Telos”published in Volume 3, Number 1 of the Journal of East Asia and International Law. In his article, Singh attempted to overlap various conceptions of modernity taken from a wide range of academic disciplines, and experimentally collapse them into one with a post-colonial point of view. In spite of incomplete argumentation and obscurity in the conceptual formulation, I found his original ideas on the internal connection of modernity with the operating mode of international law to be highly impressive. The most critical point against him was the firm and stereotypical dichotomy of the colonizer and the colonized without any potentiality of sublating the state of colonization, that is, disconnecting the colonizers with their colony and liberating the colonized from their colony. By such sublation (Aufheben) of the existing oppressive relation between the colonizers and the colonized, we can plan to build a new world of peaceful coexistence between the colonizers and the colonized of the past. But although Singh’s conception of modernity is dangerously one-sided, I expect his further research to penetrate into the deep life-reality of the Indian subaltern, which would make a great contribution to the establishment of the new vision of international law in this global society.

This monograph takes on“ modern art”as the location of modernity. This subject, in my view, holds potential for a productive multi-logue and not just a dialogue, between three binary socio-cultural categories: child and adult, normal and mad, and colonisers and colonised. Modern art raises very interesting questions, and as an area that is often ignored in the analysis of law and science, it forms a powerful field for exploring both, as well as their intersections. Exploring the psychology of colonisation/domination is an important objective of this monograph. In order to get at it, the monograph imbibes Appadurai, Foucault, and Nandy as offering complementary stances on modernity and subsequent globalisation of intra- European relations after the industrial revolution. In doing so the author relates aspects of semiotic theory by looking at theories of myth. This monograph concludes by applying their relevance to the strategy of signification deployed by international law and relations.

In terms of the way we perceive the world, the history of human beings might be said to be a history of two incompatible forces -'science' and 'myth.' Until today, both indispensable aspects have made human existence possible and characterized human culture. Nonetheless, an essential definition of myth has never been clearly explained. What is the general philosophical thought about myth? Current well known interpretations are so called Enlightenment and Romanticism of myth, which both has same criticism that they has not generally considered myth in terms of its technical function or specified contents. One who overcomes the limit of two current extreme beliefs on myth and also who concerned more with the ultimate origin of myth and its relation to the structure of poetry than the source of its vital accomplishments is philosopher Hans Blumenberg. For him myth is an artificial means and an answers to overcome the 'absolutism of reality.' On this point, the research concerns basically two issues. One is to investigate the functional and structural characters of myth through philosopher Hans Blumenberg's anthropological reflections. The other is to analyze architect Tadao Ando's works and thinking. The intention of the paper is not only to explore the relationship between philosophical theory of Blumenberg and Ando's architectural works, but also to suggest a new critical understanding on architecture from mythological point of view. I also expect that this research will suggests a concrete theoretical idea for constructing and construing artistic form and cultural space.