ScholarWorks@숙명여자대학교

초록

This study critically examines the aspects of human species exceptionalism or superiority in the existing psychological empathy theory, and attempts to explore the possibility of a ‘theory of sympathy that encompasses humans and non-humans’ by approaching it from the perspective of perception rather than of the advanced cognitive ability that only non-disabled human adults possess. For this purpose, this research, considering Deleuze’s later theory of perception, which moves toward becoming-animal and perception beyond humans in the perspective of ‘symbiotic alliance’, connects the ‘prehension of thisness(haecceity )’ that comes from the process of becoming-molecular of perception with Frans de Waal’s “preconcern”. Furthermore, this study captures the subtle perception such as the prehension of thisness(haecceity ) in D.H. Lawrence’s “Feeling with”, and proposes to call these tout ensemble ‘Symbiotic Sympathy’. And finally, examining as a Korean case, the <Yellow Envelope Campaign>, which led a spontaneous and immediate civil society movement in South Korea, this article catches much of symbiotic sympathies between people who participated in this campaign, and presents it as a case that shows the new possibility of sympathy encompassing humans and non-humans.

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