전쟁의 기억과 '문화국가'론

The definition of ‘cultural state’ includes two conflicting ideas, that is, the freedom from the state and the government intervention in cultural activities.
Such a paradox requires more deliberate approach to the ‘cultural state’, but there have been tendencies that the ‘cultural state’ was used as a habitual expression for cultural policy by Korean government without full discussing or investigating on it. At the same time, the ideological discussions about cultural policy have concentrated on the particulars or methodologies of cultural policy rather than the conceptual problem of the ‘cultural state’ itself. However, the new Korean government is facing urgent problems of the fundamental reflection on and innovation of cultural administration including reestablishment of the principle of cultural state by constitutional amendment. Therefore, this literature intended to reexamine historical disputes over the ideologies of ‘cultural state’ such as totalitarianism vs democracy, control vs freedom, nationalism vs individualism, and so on, especially focusing on the discourse of ‘cultural state’ in wartime and postwar Japan. That’s because I thought the concept of ‘cultural state’ is a historical constructs which have proliferated since WWⅡ from the memory and reflection of wartime totalitarianism. Also because I thought that the discourse of ‘cultural state’ in Japan during that period from the Sino-Japanese war(1937) to the treaty of San Francisco(1951) embodied in itself the fundamental characteristics of ‘cultural state’ disputes originated from the memory of war. By reexamining that historical ‘cultural state’ disputes in Japan, I expected that this literature could provide a reflective clue to reestablish the concept of ‘cultural state.’