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=Source====Book Description=====[[Image:OnBelief.jpg|200px|thumb|Book Cover]]ŽižekWhat is the basis of belief in an era when globalization, multiculturalism and big business are the new religion? Slavoj Zizek, Srenowned philosopher and irrepressible cultural critic takes on all comers in this compelling and breathless new book. (2001) From 'cyberspace reason' to the paradox that is 'Western Buddhism', ''On Belief'' gets behind the contours of the way we normally think about belief, London in particular Judaism and New York: RoutledgeChristianity. Holding up the so-called authenticity of religious belief to critical light, Zizek draws on psychoanalysis, film and philosophy to reveal in startling fashion that nothing could be worse for believers than their beliefs turning out to be true.
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|width="100%"| [[Slavoj Žižek|Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[On Belief|On Belief (Thinking in Action)]]'''''. New York: Routledge. June 26, 2001, 1st edition, Paperback, 176 pages, Language: English, ISBN: 0415255325. <small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415255325/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415255325/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415255325/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415255325/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk] or [http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415255325/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr].</small>
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=Review by [http://www.lacan.com/zizekchro2.htm Tony Myers]=Žižek returns here to the territory of The Fragile Absolute inwhat he describes as a 'self-critical' mood. Although advertised as ananalysis of belief, the main thrust of the book is once again the callfor a politics of the ethical act, one which rejects the comforts ofpragmatism and repeats the hard-line and unrepentant ethic of St Pauland Lenin. As such this represents the latest of Žižek's entreatiesfor us to leap into the 'night of the world'. Probably his most acces-sible monograph to date (as well as one of his best-selling), this bookcan be profitably read with little prior knowledge of the rest of hiswork.   [[Category:Slavoj Žižek]][[Category:Works by Slavoj Žižek]][[Category:Works]][[Category:Books]][[Category:Psychoanalysis]]{{CBBSZ}}
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