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[[Philosophy]], [[Psychoanalysis]], [[Politics]]

One of our most daring intellectuals offers a [[Lacanian ]] [[interpretation ]] of [[religion]], finding that early [[Christianity ]] was the first revolutionary collective.

Slavoj ?i?ek?s [[writing ]] mixes astonishing erudition and references to pop [[culture ]] in [[order ]] to dissect current [[intellectual ]] pieties. In ''The [[Puppet and the Dwarf]]'' he offers a close [[reading ]] of today?s [[religious ]] constellation from the viewpoint of [[Lacanian psychoanalysis]]. He critically confronts both predominant versions of today?s spirituality?New Age gnosticism and deconstructionist-Levinasian [[Judaism]]?and then tries to redeem the ?materialist? kernel of Christianity. His reading of Christianity is explicitly [[political]], discerning in the [[Pauline ]] [[community ]] of believers the first version of a revolutionary collective. Since today even advocates of [[Enlightenment ]] like Jurgen [[Habermas ]] acknowledge that a religious [[vision ]] is needed to ground our [[ethical ]] and political stance in a ?postsecular? age, this book?with a stance that is clearly [[materialist ]] and at the same [[time ]] indebted to the core of the [[Christian ]] legacy?is certain to stir controversy.

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