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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 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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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Religion: general

• Full title: Puppet and the Dwarf
• Author: Slavoj Žizek
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196
• EAN: 9780262740258
• ISBN: 0262740257
• ID: 04397606
• Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
• Weight: 230 g
• Dimensions: 202 × 134 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. August 2003

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