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One of our most daring intellectuals offers a Lacanian interpretation of religion, finding that early Christianity was the first revolutionary collective.Slavoj Zizek has been called "an academic rock star" and "the wild man of theory"; his writing mixes astonishing erudition and references to pop culture in order to dissect current intellectual pieties. In The Puppet and the Dwarf he offers a close reading of today's religious constellation from the viewpoint of Lacanian psychoanalysis. He critically confronts both predominant versions of today's spirituality-New Age gnosticism and deconstructionist-Levinasian Judaism-and then tries to redeem the "materialist" kernel of Christianity. His reading of Christianity is explicitly political, discerning in the Pauline community of believers the first version of a revolutionary collective. Since today even advocates of Enlightenment like Jurgen Habermas acknowledge that a religious vision is needed to ground our ethical and political stance in a "postsecular" age, this book-with a stance that is clearly materialist and at the same time indebted to the core of the Christian legacy-is certain to stir controversy.

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Slavoj Zizek, a philosopher and cultural critic, is Senior Researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, and International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London. He is the author of more than thirty books, including Looking Awry- An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture, The Puppet and the Dwarf- The Perverse Core of Christianity, The Parallax View, The Monstrosity of Christ- Paradox or Dialectic (with John Milbank), and Zizek's Jokes (Did you hear the one about Hegel and negation?), these five published by the MIT Press.

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A witty, informative trip...both erudite and accessible... His writing is bold, confident and contentious. The Puppet and the Dwarf is Žižek's most compelling and passionate writing on Christianity to date. Quite possibly the most entertaining philosopher working today. Žižek knows how to think the unthinkable. Slavoj Žižek may have the strongest 'brand identity'...of any cultural theorist now in the marketplace of ideas. Žižek is the first Marxist to write theology in a post-marxist, post-secular age. ...Žižek mixes Pauline speculations with analyses of everything from G. K. Chesterton to chocolate eggs. Žižek rarely fails to entertain...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780262740258
  • Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 196
  • Series Title: Short Circuits
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 290 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0262740257
  • Publisher Date: 29 Aug 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: Short Circuits
  • Sub Title: The Perverse Core of Christianity
  • Width: 137 mm


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