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The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity (Short Circuits) by Slavoj Žižek & Žižek & Slavoj (professor Zizek, European Graduate School) & Mladen Dolar & Stockholm Inst Of Transition Staff & Alenka Zupancic is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity (Short Circuits) about?
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.ISBN : 9780262740258
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- Author
- Slavoj Žižek & Žižek & Slavoj (professor Zizek, European Graduate School) & Mladen Dolar & Stockholm Inst Of Transition Staff & Alenka Zupancic
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262261302
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Religion, Poetry, Psychology
- Rating
- 3.84 / 5 (562 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14