배제된 자들의 윤리학 = An Ethics of the Outcast: A Comparative Study of Mun-yeol Lee’s “An Anonymous Island” and Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This essay examines the way in which we can intervene ethically in the political dimension where the fundamental opposition between friend and enemy is endlessly (re)constructed, on the basis of a close reading of Mun-yeol Lee’s story, “An Anonymous Island” and Christopher Nolan’s film, The Dark Knight. Whereas the political relies on a clear or straightforward opposition between friend and enemy, contemporary debates around the ethics of the other demonstrate how the essential political distinction is inherently unstable and what must come as a supplement to the friend-enemy polarity. The reading of “An Anonymous Island” focuses primarily on Ggaecheol as a stranger who should be considered and excluded as the enemy according to the political opposition of friend and enemy, but nonetheless still remains beyond representation within the community. Ggaecheol as a figure located no longer in a field totalized in terms of the friend-enemy polarity offers a preliminary clue to Batman’s last decision to willingly become a criminal, giving up his own position as the exceptional superhero. By becoming a silent and dark guardian wearing the mask of evil, Batman establishes himself as an anonymous island within Gotham that cannot be assimilated to any oppositional way of thinking.

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