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The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For by Slavoj Zizek [Zizek, Slavoj] is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For about?
From now on, even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, weknow him no longer in that way; everything old has passed away; see,everything has become new!' Saint Paul's militant declaration from Corinthiansasserts for the first time in human history the revolutionary logic of aradical break with the past--with it, the age of Cosmic Balance and similarpagan babble is over. What does it mean to return to this stance today? One ofthe 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 emergingreligious sensitivity within deconstructionism itself. How is a Marxist tocounter this massive onslaught of obscurantism? The wager of Žižek's TheFragile Absolute is that Christianity and Marxism should fight togetheragainst the onslaught of new spiritualism. The subversive core of theChristian legacy is much too precious to be left to the fundamentalists. Hereis a fitting contribution from a Marxist to the 2000th anniversary of one whowas well aware that to practice love in our world is to bring in the sword andfire.__
Who reads The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Slavoj Zizek [Zizek, Slavoj]
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781859843260
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Christian, Fiction, Religion
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-24