The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why the Christian Legacy Is Worth Fighting For? - Couverture rigide

Zizek, Slavoj

 
9781859847701: The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why the Christian Legacy Is Worth Fighting For?
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ISBN 10 : 1859847706 ISBN 13 : 9781859847701
Editeur : Verso Books, 2000

Synopsis

From now on, even 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, everything has become new!' Saint Paul's militant declaration from Corinthians asserts for the first time in human history the revolutionary logic of a radical break with the past--with it, the age of Cosmic Balance and similar pagan babble is over. What does it mean to return to 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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more.

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Éditeur
Verso Books
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1859847706
ISBN 13 
9781859847701
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
182
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9781844673025: The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why Is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1844673022 ISBN 13 :  9781844673025
Editeur : Verso Books, 2009
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