Puppet and the Dwarf The Perverse Core of Christianity

Name: Puppet and the Dwarf The Perverse Core of Christianity
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ISBN: 9780262740258

ISBN-10: 0262740257

ISBN-13: 9780262740258

Edition: 2003

Authors: Slavoj Zizek, Stockholm Inst Of Transition Staff, Mladen Dolar, Alenka Zupancic

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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 Dwarfhe 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…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/29/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 196
Size: 5.39" wide x 7.95" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Series Foreword


Introduction: The Puppet Called Theology



When East Meets West



The "Thrilling Romance of Orthodoxy"



The Swerve of the Real



From Law to Love . . . and Back



Subtraction, Jewish and Christian


Appendix: Ideology Today


Notes