Name: The Fragile Absolute: Or, why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For? (The Essential Zizek)
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Author: Zizek, Slavoj
ISBN: 9781844673025

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The Fragile Absolute: Or, why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For? (The Essential Zizek)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Slavoj Zizek

Publisher

Verso Books

Year

2009

Language

English

Pages

157

Format

Paperback

ISBN

1844673022

ISBN13

9781844673025

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Fragile Absolute: Or, why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For? (The Essential Zizek) "

One of the signal features of our era is the re-emergence of the 'sacred' in all its different guises, from New Age paganism to the emerging religious sensitivity within cultural and political theory. The wager of Žižek's The Fragile Absolute - published here with a new preface by the author - is that Christianity and Marxism can fight together against the contemporary onslought of vapid spiritualism. The revolutionary core of the Christian legacy is too precious to be left to the fundamentalists.

Slavoj Zizek

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Slavoj Žižek (Ljubljana, March 21, 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher, psychoanalyst, and cultural critic. He is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London. He teaches continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, political theory, cultural studies, film criticism, Marxism, Hegelianism, and theology.

In 1989, Žižek published his first text in English, The Sublime Object of Ideology, in which he moved away from traditional Marxist theory to develop a materialist conception of ideology that heavily relied on Lacanian psychoanalysis and Hegelian idealism.

In 2012, Foreign Policy included Žižek in its list of the top 100 global thinkers, calling him a "philosophical celebrity." Žižek's work was featured in a 2005 documentary titled Zizek!. An academic journal, the International Journal of Žižek Studies, was founded to understand his work.

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