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− | [[ | + | Slavoj Zizek has been called "an academic rock star" and "the wild man of theory"; his 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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+ | |width="100%"| [[Slavoj Žižek|Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity|The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity (Short Circuits)]]'''''. Cambridge: The MIT Press. October 12, 2003, Paperback, 190 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0262740257. <small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262740257/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262740257/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262740257/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262740257/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk] or [http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262740257/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr].</small> | ||
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