Žižek, S{{BBSZ}} =====Book Description=====[[Image:The. (2000) The Fragile .Absolute, or Why the Christian Legacy is WorthFighting For, London and New York: Verso.jpg|300px|right]]As Žižek himself confesses“From now on, it might seem strange for even though we once knew Christ from a Marxist tohuman point of view, we know him no longer in that way; everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!“ defend Saint Paul's militant declaration from Corinthians asserts for the legacy of Christianity first time in an age which has seen human history the re-emer-gence revolutionary logic of obscurantist religious thought. Howevera radical break with the past — with it, part of the broadremit age of this compact book Cosmic Balance and similar pagan babble is an attempt over. What does it mean to resuscitate the subversivereturn to this stance today? core One of Christianity, the act most deplorable aspects of 'shooting at oneself' (or our postmodern era is the re-emergence of radical nega-tivity) which forms the centrepiece “sacred” in all its different guises, from New Age paganism to the emerging religious sensitivity within deconstructionism itself. How is a Marxist to counter this massive onslaught of Žižek's analysis obscurantism? The wager of Schelling inZizek’s The Abyss of Freedom Fragile Absolute is that Christianity and Marxism should fight together against the onslaught of Descartes in Cogito and the Unconsciousnew spiritualism.Proposing that The subversive core of the only way Christian legacy is much too precious to be left to liberate oneself the fundamentalists. Here is a fitting contribution from a Marxist to the grip 2000th anniversary of existingsocial reality one who was well aware that to practice love in our world is to renounce bring in the fantasmatic supplement that attachessword and fire. us to it, he cites any number “The most formidably brilliant exponent of examples from Sethe's act of infanti-cide in Toni Morrison's Belovedpsychoanalysis, through Keyser Soeze's massacreindeed of his own family cultural theory in The Usual Suspectsgeneral, up to the supreme instance ofsuch a gesture have emerged from Europe in the Crucifixionsome decades. This is an accessible work which” — ''Terry Eagleton'' underscores the utopian aspect of his discussion of the 'night of the=====Product Details=====world' in previous books{| style="width:100%; border:1px solid #aaa;text-align:left; line-height:2.0em; padding-left:10px;"|width="100%"| [[Category:WorksSlavoj Žižek|Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[Category:BooksThe Fragile Absolute|The Fragile Absolute, or Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For]]'''''. London; New York: Verso. October 2001, Paperback, 188 pages, Language: English, ISBN: 1859843263. <small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859843263/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [Categoryhttp:Žižek//www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859843263/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859843263/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859843263/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk] or [Categoryhttp:Psychoanalysis]//www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859843263/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr].</small>|} {{CBBSZ}}
