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The Puppet and the Dwarf

The Perverse Core of Christianity (Short Circuits)

By Slavoj Zizek

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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 fContinue

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

    The Puppet and The Dwarf is dense, bonkers, massively erudite, tautological, brilliant, baffling. Slavoj Zizek has been called "an academic rock star" and "the wild man of theory" and its understandable why. His writing mixes pop cultural references ... (read full critics)

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  • Paperback 190 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 0262740257
  • ISBN-13: 9780262740258
  • Publisher: The MIT Press
  • Pub date: Oct 12, 2003
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
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