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- 196pagine
- 7 ore di lettura
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One of our most daring intellectuals offers a Lacanian interpretation of religion, finding that early Christianity was the first revolutionary collective.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, Slavoj Žižek
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- Pubblicato
- 2003
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- Titolo
- The puppet and the dwarf : the perverse core of Christianity
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Slavoj Žižek
- Editore
- MIT Press
- Pubblicato
- 2003
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 196
- ISBN10
- 0262740257
- ISBN13
- 9780262740258
- Serie
- Short Circuits
- Ritiro
- Short circuits
- Tag
- Saggistica, Scienze sociali, Esoterismo e religione, Temi psicologici, Temi religiosi, Tematica filosofica, Religione, Filosofia, Temi cristiani, Cristianesimo, Teologia, Psychoanalisi
- Valutazione
- 3,85 su 5
- Descrizione
- One of our most daring intellectuals offers a Lacanian interpretation of religion, finding that early Christianity was the first revolutionary collective.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.