왜 그리고 어떤 공화주의인가

Abstract

There has been an emergence of scholarly interests in liberal republicanism, as manifested through the recent articles of social scientists and journalists in Korean society. Although most social scientists in South Korea believe classical or liberal republicanism is an intellectual tradition that is remote from their experiences, sociopolitical problems driven by the neoliberal changes of Korean society have gradually made them take it into consideration without hesitation. Focusing on this newly emergent scholarly circumstance in South Korea, this article aims at analyzing sociopolitical problems begging scholarly attention to liberal republicanism in South Korea, and searching for political principles that shed light on the intrinsic values of liberal republicanism rather than its instrumental values for realizing other political ideals. Specifically, I develop two arguments. First, juxtaposing a set of sociopolitical problems with alternative choices in classical or liberal republicanism, I claim that classical or liberal republicanism can be an alternative to neoliberalism and its varieties in Korean context. Second, criticizing scholarly attempts regarding liberal republicanism as an instrument, I argue that reciprocal nondomination shaped through intrinsic values in liberal republicanism can be a regulative principle by which democratic citizenship in the era of neoliberalism can be supplemented with liberal-republican core values, such as shared responsibility, nondominational state, and patriotism without exclusivity.