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  The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity (Short Circuits) (Paperback) By (author) Slavoj Zizek

  

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  Short Description for The Puppet and the DwarfOne of our most daring intellectuals offers a Lacanian interpretation of religion, finding that early Christianity was the first revolutionary collective.
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  • Publisher: MIT Press
  • Published: 12 October 2003
  • Format: Paperback 196 pages
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  • Categories: Psychology | Psychoanalytical Theory (Freudian Psychology) | Philosophy | Philosophy Of Religion | Christianity | Christian Theology
  • ISBN 13: 9780262740258 ISBN 10: 0262740257
  • Sales rank: 48,743

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• 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.