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영어

An “orphan” may seem as objective and universal as possible a category, because such designation stems from existential crisis. Yet such apparent universality, even if it were true, does not translate into any historical insights. It is rather fruitful to follow many different names given to orphans and try to understand the power-knowledge network(s) behind them. This paper traces such different names in the French context that is understood as an amalgam of multifarious and sometimes contradictory practices. Adjectives like exposé, abandonné, and assisté reveal specific ways, in which the respective power-knowledge understood orphans.
Each of the epochal moments, such as the absolute monarchy, the French Revolution, the bourgeoning Bourgeois society and the Third Republic, constituted and reconstituted orphans. Modernity may seem only possible comprehensive framework but such postulation is also internally contradictory. Modern social and political theory is premised on the modern individual, who should be considered potential and potent orphan, while modernity as a system of practices has constantly dissolved, reappropriated and reinvented orphans.

한국어

이 논문은 근세에서 20세 기 초반에 이르는 시기 프랑스의 고아 문제에 대한 인식과 정책적 대처를 살 펴보고 여기에 담긴 고아의 정치성을 규명하고자 한다. 따라서 이 논문은 전 통적 의미에서의 프랑스 사 연구라고 할 수 없으며 이 논문의 핵심적인 관심 은 프랑스로 추상할 수 있는 근대-국가이다. 이런 의미에서 “프랑스”라는 국 가적 맥락은 다양한 국가-효과(state effects)와 실천의 한 범례로 보아야 한다