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The Puppet and the Dwarf by Slavoj Zizek, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Slavoj Zizek

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The Puppet and the Dwarf by Slavoj Zizek, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
The Puppet and the Dwarf by Slavoj Zizek, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

The Puppet and the Dwarf by Slavoj Zizek, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Slavoj Zizek

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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 Žižek 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. | The Puppet and the Dwarf by Slavoj Zizek, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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