Description
One of the signal features of our era is the re-emergence of the 'sacred' in all its different guises, from New Age paganism to the emerging religious sensitivity within cultural and political theory.
The wager of Zizek's The Fragile Absolute - published here with a new preface by the author - is that Christianity and Marxism can fight together against the contemporary onslought of vapid spiritualism. The revolutionary core of the Christian legacy is too precious to be left to the fundamentalists.
Argues that the subversive core of the Christian legacy forms the foundation of a politics of universal emancipation
About the Author
Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a sen-ior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Less Than Nothing, six volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more.
Reviews
Righteously to battle the tsunami of postmodern spiritual mush, Zizek attempts a reconciliation between Marxism and Christianity, eccentrically (against Nietzsche) trying to recuperate St Paul for the radical Christian. * Guardian *
Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation. * The New Yorker *
This is a subtle argument ... Zizek applies it with a broad brush to both contemporary society and popular culture. * Boston Book Review *
Book Information
ISBN 9781844673025
Author Slavoj Zizek
Format Paperback
Page Count 157
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 212g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 132mm * 15mm
The wager of Zizek's The Fragile Absolute - published here with a new preface by the author - is that Christianity and Marxism can fight together against the contemporary onslought of vapid spiritualism. The revolutionary core of the Christian legacy is too precious to be left to the fundamentalists.
Argues that the subversive core of the Christian legacy forms the foundation of a politics of universal emancipation
About the Author
Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a sen-ior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Less Than Nothing, six volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more.
Reviews
Righteously to battle the tsunami of postmodern spiritual mush, Zizek attempts a reconciliation between Marxism and Christianity, eccentrically (against Nietzsche) trying to recuperate St Paul for the radical Christian. * Guardian *
Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation. * The New Yorker *
This is a subtle argument ... Zizek applies it with a broad brush to both contemporary society and popular culture. * Boston Book Review *
Book Information
ISBN 9781844673025
Author Slavoj Zizek
Format Paperback
Page Count 157
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 212g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 132mm * 15mm
