WLP Scholar Series: Yu-jin Chang

"Political Diabology: Apologies for God"

Join us for a Scholar Research Series event with Yu-jin Chang in Room 206, 172 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02111 from 6:00pm to 7:00pm.

Please RSVP by Wed, Feb 19 at the Eventbrite link above. Non-Emerson guests must RSVP to be given security access to the event.

Free and open to the public.

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"Political Diabology: Apologies for God"

The relationship between the political and the theological is not exactly established. Where precisely does one begin and the other end? Or does one divide from the other as earth divides from heaven, this world from the next? How would the two spheres in question, if indeed separate realms, come into contact in the first place? How would they lose touch once they do collide and conjoin? Does one realm present the critical expression of the other or simply its annulment? In a series of essaylets on texts ranging from the Hebrew and Christian Bibles to the early modern political theologies of Thomas Hobbes and Baruch Spinoza to the twentieth-century works finally of Carl Schmitt and Walter Benjamin, Yu-jin Chang explores these questions and others in a project he calls a "Political Diabology."

Yu-jin Chang teaches European literatures at Emerson College, where he is Associate Professor in the Department of Writing, Literature & Publishing and Assistant Dean in the School of the Arts.