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Verso (2009), Edition: Second Edition, Paperback, 157 pages
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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.
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LibraryThing member godinpain
I don't know enough about philosophy (specifically Hegel and Lacan) to get much out of this.
LibraryThing member HadriantheBlind
Utterly confusing if you don't understand all the references (from Hitchcock to Saint Paul and Marx), but some really interesting ideas in here if you stare at it long enough. Discusses the nature of groups, and religions.
LibraryThing member b.masonjudy
Žižek goes all over the place in this short volume and I found more insight and wisdom into Lacanian psychoanalysis than in my understanding of the subversive core of Christianity. That said, he gave me a new appreciation for Pauline doctrine and a great example of robust critical engagement with
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157 p.; 7.72 inches
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1844673022 / 9781844673025