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The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity
Zizek, Slavoj, A1/2ia3/4ek, Slavoj (Author), Ž Iž Ek, Slavoj (Author)
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Format: Paperback, 196pp.
Date of publication: Aug 2003
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
ISBN-13: 9780262740258
Dimensions: 20.45 cm. (length) X 13.89 cm. (width) X 1.35 cm. (thickness)
Weight: 227 grams

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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... [More...] [Edit review] [Delete review]
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