The Puppet and the Dwarf
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The Puppet and the Dwarf  (English, Paperback, Zizek Slavoj)

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  • Language: English
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
  • Genre: Psychology
  • ISBN: 9780262740258, 9780262740258
  • Pages: 196
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    One of our most daring intellectuals offers a Lacanian interpretation of religion, finding that early Christianity was the first revolutionary collective. 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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    • MIT Press
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    • 13 mm
    Height
    • 203 mm
    Length
    • 137 mm
    Weight
    • 227 gr
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