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{| style="width:450px; border:1px solid #aaa;text-align:left; line-height:2.0em; padding-left:10px;"|width="450px"| [[Slavoj Žižek|Zizek, Slavoj]], Eric L. Santner, and Kenneth Reinhard . '''The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology'''. 240 pChicago: University of Chicago Press., 6 line drawings2006. 6 x 9 2006 Series: (RP) Religion and Postmodernism Series|}
In Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud made abundantly clear what he thought about the biblical injunction, first articulated in Leviticus 19:18 and then elaborated in Christian teachings, to love one's neighbor as oneself. "Let us adopt a naive attitude towards it," he proposed, "as though we were hearing it for the first time; we shall be unable then to suppress a feeling of surprise and bewilderment." After the horrors of World War II, the Holocaust, Stalinism, and Yugoslavia, Leviticus 19:18 seems even less conceivable—but all the more urgent now—than Freud imagined.
A rich and suggestive account of the interplay between love and hate, self and other, personal and political, The Neighbor will prove to be a touchstone across the humanities and a crucial text for understanding the persistence of political theology in secular modernity.
*Miracles Happen: Benjamin, Rosenzweig, Freud, and the Matter of the Neighbor
:Eric L. Santner
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