이남인 교수님은 서울대 철학과 교수님이시다.
이남인 교수님은 정말 우연히 알게 되었다. 하지만 운명이라고 해도 되겠다.
학위 논문 연구 주제를 정하고, 연구 방법을 질적연구로 하기로 결정한 후, 구체적으로 어떤 방법으로 접근을 해야 하나 고민하다 유튜브에서 그냥 한번 현상학을 검색해보았다. 그런데 AIR KLASS라는 교육 플랫폼에 ‘간호학과 응용현상학’ 이라는 주제로 패키지 강의가 있는 것이 아니겠는가? 내가 그래도 간호학과 박사과정생인데, ‘간호학과 응용현상학’이라는 주제로 온라인 강의가 있다는 것을 몰랐다는 것이 다시 당황스럽긴 하였으나, 연구 방법을 결정하는데 큰 도움이 될 것으로 판단하여 수강을 주저하지 않았다. 그리고 이남인 교수님의 강의를 듣게 되었다.
놀랍게도 이남인 교수님은 간호학이 추구하고자 하는 가치와 방향을 아주 잘 알고 계셨다. 응용현상학이 왜 간호학에 필요한지, 간호학에서 어떤 응용현상학적 탐색이 가능한지에 대해 체계적으로, 논리적으로, 그것도 아주 명쾌하게 설명해주셨다.
난 이남인 교수님의 강의를 듣고, 여러 문헌을 찾아보며, 현상학을 내 학업의 평생에 가져가야 할 연구 방법론으로 결정했다. 내가 지금까지 계속 갈증을 느껴오던 부분을 해결할 수 있는 실마리를 찾은 것 같았다.
나는 내가 사랑하는 간호학이 그 가치만큼 이 사회에서 인정받지 못하고 있고, 진정한 간호를 해내기 어려운 이 현실 구조에 깊은 갈증을 느끼고 있었다. 하지만 현상학적 탐색과 실천을 통해 간호의 본질을 회복하고 그것의 가치를 성과로서 증명할 수 있다면, 간호학을 더 엄밀한 학문으로 정립하고, 사회적으로도 그 가치를 인정받게 하는데 조금이나마 기여할 수 있을 것이라는 생각이 들었다.
이는 어쩌면 이남인 교수님의 후설(Husserl) 사랑과 비슷한 것일 수도 있겠다. 이남인 교수님의 강의나 책을 들어다보면, 교수님의 후설에 대한 애정을 잔뜩 느낄 수가 있고, 후설의 철학적 사유와 공을 어떻게 하면 제대로 전달할까 치열하게 고민하신 것이 느껴진다. 나에겐 간호학이 그런 존재이다.
이남인 교수님의 ‘현상학과 질적연구: 응용현상학의 한 지평’은 굉장히 뛰어난 책이다. 영문으로 번역되지 않아 아쉽다. 번역이 된다면 정말 많이 인용될텐데.. 이 외에도 교수님의 글 중 응용현상학과 관련한 영문 참고 문헌이 별로 없어 정말 많이 아쉽다.
Lee, N. I. (2011). Phenomenology and qualitative research method. Grenzgänge: Studien zur interdisziplinären und interkulturellen Phänomenologie, 25. 이 논문 외 참고할 수 있는 영문 문헌을 아시는 분은 댓글을 부탁 드린다.
학위 논문을 준비하면서 이남인 교수님께 연락을 드려보고 싶었으나, 메일에 답장이 없으셔서 사무실로 연락해보니 퇴직을 앞두고 휴직 중이셨다. 언젠가 기회가 된다면 꼭 한 번 찾아 뵙고 싶다.
다음은 International Institute of Philosophy에서 확인된 이남인 교수님의 연구 이력이다.
Honors and Awards
1992 Best Dissertation Award in 1991, University of Wuppertal
1994 Best Article Award in 1993, Society for Philosophical Studies
1999 Lecture Invitation for the Aron Gurwitsch Memorial Lecture, SPEP Conference (University of Oregon)
2005 Award from National Academy of Science, Republic of Korea
2008 Member of IIP (Institut International de Philosophie)
2016 Excellence in Research Award, Seoul National University
Editorial Board/Advisory Committee of Journals/Book Series
2002-present Phenomenology and Cognitive Sciences (Journal)
2002-present The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy (Journal)
2002-2008 Classics in Phenomenology (Book Series)
2002-2008 Contemporary Phenomenological Thought (Book Series)
2002-present Orbis Phaenomenologicus (Journal)
2005-present Continental Philosophy Review (Journal)
2006- Pathways in Phenomenology (Book Series)
2006-present Patterns in Applied Phenomenology (Book Series)
2009-present Contributions to Phenomenology (Book Series)
2009-2011 Philosophy (in Korean, Journal, editor in chief)
2012-present Libri Nigri (Book Series)
2012-present Libri Virides (Book Series)
Education
1977-1981 BA, Department of Philosophy, Seoul National University
1981-1983 MA, Department of Philosophy, Seoul National University
1983-1986 Ph. D. Course, Department of Philosophy, Seoul National University
1986-1987 Ph. D. Course, Department of Philosophy, University of Cologne
1987-1991 Ph. D., Department of Philosophy, University of Wuppertal
Bibliographie (읽은 것은 bold체로 표시함. The read literature is indicated in bold.)
Books
Edmund Husserls Phänomenologie der Instinkte, Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993. (Phaenomenologica vol. 128)
Phenomenology and Hermeneutics (in Korean), Seoul: Seoul National University Press, 2004.
Husserl’s Phenomenology and Contemporary Philosophy (in Korean), Seoul: Poolbit Media, 2006.
Phenomenology of Perception. Husserl and Merleau-Ponty (in Korean), Pajoo: Hangilsa, 2013.
Phenomenology and Qualitative Research (in Korean), Pajoo: Hangilsa, 2014.
Beyond Consilience (in Korean), Seoul: Seoul National University Press, 2015.
The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Instinct (in Korean), Pajoo: Seokwangsa, 2018.
The Concrete and the Plural: Studies in Husserl’s Phenomenology and Its Horizon, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2021 (forthcoming).
Phenomenology of Intersubjectivity: Husserl, Levinas, and East-West Dialogue (forthcoming).
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“Transcendental Phenomenology and Postmodernism” (in Korean), in: Philosophical Studies 31 (1992).
“Derrida’s Criticism of Husserl” (in Korean), in: Philosophical Research 20 (1992).
“Instinctive Intentionality and the Constitution of Intersubjective World” (in Korean), in: Phenomenology and Contemporary Philosophy 7 (1993).
“The Concept of Reality in Husserl’s Phenomenology” (in Korean), in: Haechang Chung and others, The Concept of Reality in Eastern and Western Philosophy, Seongnam: The Academy of Korean Studies Press, 1994.
“Heidegger’s Existential Hermeneutics” (in Korean), in: Korean Society for Hermeneutics (Ed.), What Is Hermeneutics, Seoul: Jeepyeongmoonwhasa, 1995.
“Heidegger’s Criticism of Husserl and the Hermeneutic Phenomenology” (in Korean), in: Phenomenology and Contemporary Philosophy 9 (1996).
“Husserl’s Genetic Phenomenology and Heidegger’s Hermeneutic Phenomenology” (in Korean), in: Philosophy 53 (1997).
“Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenology of Mood,” in: D. Zahavi/N. Depraz (Eds.), Alterity and Facticity, Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.
“Das An-sich Sein und die verschiedenen Gesichter der Welt,” in: Kah Kyung Cho/Young-Ho Lee (Eds.), Phänomenologie der Natur. Phänomenologische Forschungen, Sonderband, Freiburg/München: Verlag Karl Alber, 1999.
“Practical Intentionality and Transcendental Phenomenology as a Practical Philosophy,” in: Husserl Studies 17 (2000).
“Active and Passive Genesis: Genetic Phenomenology and Transcendental Subjectivity,” in: S. G. Crowell/L. Embree/S. J. Julian (Eds.), The Reach of Reflection: Issues for Phenomenology’s Second Century, Electronic Press, 2001.
“Static-Phenomenological and Genetic-Phenomenological Concept of Primordiality in Husserl’s Fifth Cartesian Meditation,” in: Husserl Studies 18 (2002).
“Phenomenology of Sensible Life in Husserl and Levinas,” in: Philosophical Thought 15 (2002).
“Phenomenology of Intersubjectivity in Husserl and Levinas,” in: Husserl Studies in Japan 1 (2003).
“Genetic Phenomenology and Problems of Intersubjectivity” (in Korean), in: Philosophical Thought 16 (2003).
“The Structure of the Critical Rationality” (in Korean), in: Philosophical Thought 19 (2004).
“Phenomenology and Qualitative Research Method” (in Korean), in: Phenomenology and Contemporary Philosophy 24 (2005).
“Philosophical Reflections on the Concept of Economic Rationality” (in Korean), in: Journal of Humanities 53 (2005).
“Phenomenology of Feeling in Husserl and Levinas,” in: The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 5 (2005).
“Problems of Intersubjectivity in Husserl and Buber,” in: Husserl Studies 22 (2006).
“Experience and Evidence,” in: Husserl Studies 23 (2007).
“Husserl’s View of Metaphysics – The Role of a Genuine Metaphysics in Phenomenological Philosophy,” in: Cheung Chan-Fai and Yu Chung-Chi (Eds.), Phenomenology 2005, Selected Essays from Asia, Part 2, Bucharest: Zeta Books, 2007.
“Phenomenological Sociology” (in Korean), in: Phenomenology and Contemporary Philosophy 33 (2007).
“Husserl’s Phenomenology and Schutz’s Phenomenological Sociology” (in Korean), in: Schutzian Research 1 (2009).
“How Can Humanities and Natural Science Meet?” (in Korean), Philosophical Studies 87 (2009).
“Phenomenological Reflections on the Possibility of First Philosophy,” in: Husserl Studies 26 (2010).
“Phenomenological Education” (in Korean), in: Philosophy of Education 47 (2010).
“Phenomenology of Language beyond the Deconstructive Philosophy of Language,” in: Continental Philosophy Review 42/4 (2010).
“The Concept of Essence in Carl Menger’s Economics,” in: Horizons 2 (2011).
“Phenomenological Reduction and the Future of Phenomenology” (in Korean), in: Phenomenology and Contemporary Philosophy 54 (2012).
“Toward the Phenomenology of Aesthetic Instinct Developed through a Dialogue with F. Schiller (1759-1805),” in: Journal of Humanities 68 (2012).
“Phenomenological Clarification of the Difference between Quantitative Research and Qualitative Research” (in Korean), in: Phenomenology and Contemporary Philosophy 55 (2012).
“Eco-Ethica and the Idea of the University Revisited,” in: Eco-ethica 2 (2012).
“The Significance and the Future-Task of E. Husserl’s Phenomenological Social Ethics” (in Korean), in: Journal of Humanities 69 (2013).
“Vers une phénomenologie de la tendance morale,” in: Diogène 248 (2014).
“Clarification of Some Aspects of Phenomenological Qualitative Research” (in Korean), Philosophical Studies 109 (2015).
“Ethik der Erneuerung bei Husserl und Konfuzius,” in: Cathrin Nielsen, Karel Novotný, Thomas Nenon (Eds.), Kontexte des Leiblichen. Festschrift für Hans Rainer Sepp, Nordhausen: Traugott Bautz, 2016.
“Instinctive Intentionality and the Nature of Valuing” (in Korean), in: Philosophical Thought 63 (2017).
“Chapter 13: Nam-In Lee,” in: Felipe Leon/Joona Taipale (Eds.), Phenomenology. Five Questions, Copenhagen: Automatic Press, 2018.
“Phänomenologische Interpretation der Phronesis bei Aristoteles,” in: Eco-ethica 7 (2018).
“‘Phenomenology and Qualitative Research’ for Reviewers of Phenomenological Qualitative Researches” (in Korean), in: Qualitative Research 20 (2019).
“Husserl’s Transcendental Subjectivity and Heidegger’s Dasein,” in: The Ritsumeikan Bungaku 665 (2020).
“The Pluralistic Concept of the Lifeworld and the Various Fields of the Phenomenology of the Lifeworld in Husserl,” in: Husserl Studies 36 (2020).
“Feeling as the Origin of Value in Scheler and Mencius,” in: Continental Philosophy Review 53, 2020.
“Instinct,” in: B. Hopkins and others (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, London: Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
