The Neighbor - Three Inquiries In Political Theology, With A New Preface

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The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology, with a new Preface - Slavoj Žižek; Eric L. Santner; Kenneth Reinhard
Slavoj Žižek; Eric L. Santner; Kenneth Reinhard
Author: Slavoj Zizek
File type: epub
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Year: 2013
Language: English
ISBN: 022604520X,9780226045207
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File type: epub
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Edition: Paperback
Pages: 200
Id: 2261019
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Bibtex: "Slavoj Žižek; Eric L. Santner; Kenneth Reinhard",
"The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology, with a new Preface"
InCivilization and Its Discontents</i>, 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, and Stalinism, Leviticus 19:18 seems even less conceivable—but all the more urgent now—than Freud imagined.<br /><br />InThe Neighbor</i>, three of the most significant intellectuals working in psychoanalysis and critical theory collaborate to show how this problem of neighbor-love opens questions that are fundamental to ethical inquiry and that suggest a new theological configuration of political theory. Their three extended essays explore today's central historical problem: the persistence of the theological in the political. In “Toward a Political Theology of the Neighbor,” Kenneth Reinhard supplements Carl Schmitt's political theology of the enemy and friend with a political theology of the neighbor based in psychoanalysis. In “Miracles Happen,” Eric L. Santner extends the book's exploration of neighbor-love through a bracing reassessment of Benjamin and Rosenzweig. And in an impassioned plea for ethical violence, Slavoj Žižek's “Neighbors and Other Monsters” reconsiders the idea of excess to rehabilitate a positive sense of the inhuman and challenge the influence of Levinas on contemporary ethical thought.<br /><br />A rich and suggestive account of the interplay between love and hate, self and other, personal and political,The Neighbor</i>has proven to be a touchstone across the humanities and a crucial text for understanding the persistence of political theology in secular modernity. This new edition contains a new preface by the authors.  '