The Fragile Absolute
Or, Why Is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?
Published on 5. May 2020
157 pages
978-1-78960-433-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Edition
Ebook UK & RoW
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-78960-433-7 (9781789604337)
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Additional editions
Book
01/2009
2nd Edition
Verso Books
€24.00
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Person
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 sen-ior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Less Than Nothing, six volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition: A Glance into the Archives of Islam
- Introduction: For Nobody and Nothing
- 1. Giving Up the Balkan Ghost
- 2. The Spectre of Capital
- 3. Coke as objet petit a
- 4. From tragique to moque-comique
- 5. Victims, Victims Everywhere
- 6. The Fantasmatic Real
- 7. Why Is the Truth Monstrous?
- 8. Of Stones, Lizards and Men
- 9. The Structure and Its Event
- 10. From the Decalogue to Human Rights
- 11. The Principle of Charity
- 12. Christ's Uncoupling
- 13. 'You must, because you can!'
- 14. From Knowledge to Truth s. and Back
- 15. The Breakout
- Notes
- Index
