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Or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?
Slavoj Zizek
ISBN: 9781844673025
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Verso Books
Edition: New edition
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Argues that the subversive core of the Christian legacy is much too precious to be left to the fundamentalists. This book also argues that the foundation of a politics of universal emancipation can be found in St Paul, finding an unlikely ally in the reinvention of a twenty first century Marxism.
One of the signal features of our era is the re-emergence of the 'sacred' in all its different guises, from New Age paganism to the emerging religious sensitivity within cultural and political theory. The wager of Zizek's The Fragile Absolute - published here with a new preface by the author - is that Christianity and Marxism can fight together against the contemporary onslought of vapid spiritualism. The revolutionary core of the Christian legacy is too precious to be left to the fundamentalists.
| ISBN | 1844673022 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9781844673025
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 236 | | Publisher | Verso Books | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Verso Books | | Series title | Essential Zizek | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 196 | | Publication date | 01 Jan 2009 | | Width (mm) | 138 | | DEWEY | 239 | | Spine width (mm) | 14 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | Pages | 208 | |
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"Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation" New Yorker "The giant of Ljubljana provides the best intellectual high since Anti-Oedipus." The Village Voice "The Elvis of cultural theory." Chronicle of Higher Education "Unafraid of confrontation and with a near limitless grasp of pop symbolism" The Times "Zizek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative." Guardian "The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged in many decades." Terry Eagleton "Zizek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability." Publishers Weekly"  Be the first to write a customer review
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