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The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity (Short Circuits) (Paperback)

by S Zizek (Author) "Today, when the historical materialist analysis is receding, practiced as it were under cover, rarely called by its proper name, while the theological dimension is..." (more)

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Paperback: 196 pages
Publisher: MIT Press (3 Oct 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0262740257
ISBN-13: 978-0262740258
Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.7 x 1.3 cm

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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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Today, when the historical materialist analysis is receding, practiced as it were under cover, rarely called by its proper name, while the theological dimension is given a new lease on life in the guise of the "postsecular" Messianic turn of deconstruction, the time has come to reverse Walter Benjamin's first thesis on the philosophy of history: The puppet called 'theology' is to win all the time. Read the first page

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Zizek's curious affinity with Christianity, which has become something of a dogma among his more zealous followers, is given a 'sort of' sustained treatment in this work. But it is less a theoretical investigation and more a series of witty, counter intuitive deductions about Christianity. All of which, as usual for Zizek, makes it makes a fun and breezy read.

He takes down Buddhism, Hinduism and new ageism, and uses Christianity to illustrate their deficiencies. Although this is all sounds pretty radical to the politically correct reader in the 21st century, scratch beneath the surface and you find a lot of the arguments are just Hegel's rehashed from the 'Philosophy of History.'

As always with Zizek it is hard to be too critical about such an impassioned and well written work. But the lack of sustainment, ontological investigation, and even (more unusually) originality, makes this a lesser work in his canon.

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