The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity
Slavoj Zizek
The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity
Slavoj Zizek
In this volume Slavoj Zizek 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 Paulinian community of believers the first version of a revolutionary collective. Since today even advocates of enlightenment like Habermas acknowledge that a religious vision is needed to ground our ethical and political stance in a post-secular age, this book - with a stance that is clearly materialist and at the same time indebted to the core of the Christian legacy - may well stir controversy.
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