The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity by Zizek, Slavoj
The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity by Zizek, Slavoj

The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity

One of our most daring intellectuals offers a Lacanian interpretation of religion, finding that early Christianity was...
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The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity by Zizek, Slavoj

The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity

$84.30
The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity by Zizek, Slavoj

The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity

$84.30
Author: Slavoj Zizek
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.



Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 08/29/2003
Pages: 196
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.05h x 5.47w x 0.53d
ISBN: 9780262740258
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2003 pg. 88
Choice 03/01/2004 pg. 1312

About the Author
Ziž Ek, Slavoj: - Slavoj Zižek is a philosopher and cultural critic. 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, and (with John Milbank) The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialect, these four published by the MIT Press.Zižek, Slavoj: - Slavoj Zižek, 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, T he Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic (with John Milbank), and Zižek's Jokes (Did you hear the one about Hegel and negation?), these five published by the MIT Press.Zizek, Slavoj: - 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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