Neighbor Three Inquiries in Political Theology

Name: Neighbor Three Inquiries in Political Theology
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ISBN: 9780226707396

ISBN-10: 0226707393

ISBN-13: 9780226707396

Edition: 2005

Authors: Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek, Eric L. Santner, Kenneth Reinhard

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In Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud made abundantly clear what he thought about the biblical injunction, first articulated in Leviticus 19:18 and then elaborated in Christian teachings, to love one's neighbor as oneself. "Let us adopt a naive attitude towards it," he proposed, "as though we were hearing it for the first time; we shall be unable then to suppress a feeling of surprise and bewilderment." After the horrors of World War II, the Holocaust, Stalinism, and Yugoslavia, Leviticus 19:18 seems even less conceivable—but all the more urgent now—than Freud imagined. In The Neighbor, three of the most significant intellectuals working in psychoanalysis and critical theory…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/14/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Introduction


Toward a Political Theology of the Neighbor



Miracles Happen: Benjamin, Rosenzweig, Freud, and the Matter of the Neighbor



Neighbors and Other Monsters: A Plea for Ethical Violence