The puppet and the dwarf: the perverse core of cristianity
Editorial THE MIT PRESS
España peninsular
- Editorial THE MIT PRESS
- ISBN13 9780262740258
- ISBN10 0262740257
- Tipo Libro
- Páginas 187
- Año de Edición 2003
- Encuadernación Rústica
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EnsayosThe puppet and the dwarf: the perverse core of cristianity
Editorial THE MIT PRESS
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
In The Puppet and the Dwarf Slavoj Zizek 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.