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About Choi In-hun’s Revolutionary Prosecution and Inquisition

  • 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
  • 2023, 16(2), pp.137-160
  • DOI : 10.22901/trans.2023.16.2.137
  • Publisher : Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : July 10, 2023
  • Accepted : October 1, 2023
  • Published : October 30, 2023

Yoon Inro 1

1한국연구재단

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This article analyzes Choi In-hun’s(1934-2018) political philosophy through his experiences in North Korea during his adolescence, which are presented in Whadoo(話頭)(1994) and The Square(1961). Here, political philosophy, to be precise, refers to theocracy, that is, the synthesis of the ‘political’ and ‘theological’. Choi In-hun’s theory of revolutionary prosecution=Inquisition, rooted in his experience of ‘self-criticism’ in North Korea(chapter 1), is set as the specific subject of analysis(chapter 2). This trans-boundary theme, which has not been well addressed in previous studies, is a political-theological problem that penetrates the Whadoo at the end of Choi In-hun’s literature and the Square at the beginning of Choi In-hun. Specifically, this is being developed as a criticism of ‘Messiah-communism in rumors’ and Antichrist(Chapter 3). As the source of such criticism, we will analyze the unified relationship between the distinct binomials that Choi In-hun speaks of, such as gods and apostles, kings and ministers, popes and inquisitors, teachers and disciples, and commanders and soldiers(Chapter 4).

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