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The Fragile Absolute, or Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For

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=Source====Book Description=====Žižek, S[[Image:The. (2000) The Fragile .Absolute.jpg|300px|right]]“From now on, or Why the Christian Legacy is WorthFighting Foreven though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way; everything old has passed away; see, London and New York: Verso.everything has become new!“
=Review by [http://www.lacan.com/zizekchro2.htm Tony Myers]=As Žižek himself confesses, it might seem strange Saint Paul's militant declaration from Corinthians asserts for a Marxist todefend the legacy of Christianity first time in an age which has seen human history the re-emer-gence of obscurantist religious thought. However, part revolutionary logic of a radical break with the broadremit of this compact book is an attempt to resuscitate the subversivecore of Christianitypast — with it, the act age of 'shooting at oneself' (or of radical nega-tivity) which forms the centrepiece of Žižek's analysis of Schelling inThe Abyss of Freedom Cosmic Balance and of Descartes in Cogito and the Unconscioussimilar pagan babble is over.Proposing that the only way What does it mean to liberate oneself from the grip of existingsocial reality is return to renounce the fantasmatic supplement that attachesus to it, he cites any number of examples from Sethe's act of infanti-cide in Toni Morrison's Beloved, through Keyser Soeze's massacreof his own family in The Usual Suspects, up to the supreme instance ofsuch a gesture in the Crucifixion. This is an accessible work whichunderscores the utopian aspect of his discussion of the 'night of theworld' in previous books.this stance today?
One of the most deplorable aspects of our postmodern era is the re-emergence of the “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 obscurantism? The wager of Zizek’s The Fragile Absolute is that Christianity and Marxism should fight together against the onslaught of new spiritualism. The subversive core of the Christian legacy is much too precious to be left to the fundamentalists. Here is a fitting contribution from a Marxist to the 2000th anniversary of one who was well aware that to practice love in our world is to bring in the sword and fire. “The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged from Europe in some decades.” — ''Terry Eagleton'' =====Product Details====={{Footer Books Slavoj Žižek}}| style="width:100%; border:1px solid #aaa;text-align:left; line-height:2.0em; padding-left:10px;"|width="100%"| [[Category:Slavoj Žižek|Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[Category:Works by Slavoj ŽižekThe 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:Works//www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859843263/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859843263/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [[Categoryhttp:Books//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}}
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