The Puppet and the Dwarf The Perverse Core of Christianity
| Author/creator | Zizek, Slavoj, 1949- Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge : MIT Press |
| Description | 196 p. 08.000 x 05.375 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Short Circuits Ser. |
| Summary | Annotation Slavoj Zizek has been called &quot;an academic rock star&quot; and &quot;the wild man of theory&quot;; his writing mixes astonishing erudition and references to pop culture in order to dissect current intellectual pieties. In<i>The Puppet and the Dwarf</i>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&mdash;New Age gnosticism and deconstructionist-Levinasian Judaism&mdash;and then tries to redeem the &quot;materialist&quot; 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 &quot;postsecular&quot; age, this book&mdash;with a stance that is clearly materialist and at the same time indebted to the core of the Christian legacy&mdash;is certain to stir controversy. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2003051043 |
| ISBN | 9780262740258 |
| ISBN | 0262740257 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780262740258 |
| Stock number | 00015994 |