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

by Slavoj Zizek (Author), Slavoj Zizek (Author), Žižek (Author)

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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 i[ek 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.

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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 i[ek 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."

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Format: paperback
Publisher: Verso Books
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ISBN 10: 1844673022
ISBN 13: 9781844673025

Media Reviews

Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation New Yorker The giant of Ljubljana provides the best intellectual high since Anti-Oedipus. The Village Voice The Elvis of cultural theory. Chronicle of Higher Education Unafraid of confrontation and with a near limitless grasp of pop symbolism The Times Zizek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative. Guardian The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged in many decades. Terry Eagleton Zizek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability. Publishers Weekly

Author Bio

Slavoj Zizek is the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books and acclaimed as the 'Elvis of cultural theory', is today's most controversial public intellectual.