{"product_id":"the-puppet-and-the-dwarf-the-perverse-core-of-christianity-by-slavoj-zizek","title":"'The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity' by Slavoj Žižek","description":"\u003ch4\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Puppet and the Dwarf\u003c\/em\u003e, Žižek does \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eŽižek. As he is wont to do.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharacteristically irritating and productive, he argues for the radical potential of Christianity while refusing almost everything usually meant by Christian apologetics. His concern is not belief, morality or the recovery of religious tradition, what is buried inside Christianity. Within, there's a rupture in law, sacrifice and authority that he thinks contemporary secular thought has failed to finish thinking through.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving through Saint Paul, Hegel, Lacan (duh), Judaism, psychoanalysis, political ideology and the logic of sacrifice, Žižek treats Christianity as an intellectual problem rather than an object of devotion. The book’s “perverse core” lies partly in its movement from prohibition and symbolic law toward an unsettling form of love in which the old economy of debt and sacrifice begins to collapse. As usual, film, jokes, theology and dense psychoanalytic argument occupy roughly equal ontological status.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's compressed, combative and deliberately paradoxical. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eŽižek delight. Particularly useful for readers interested in political theology, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Hegel, secularism, or why supposedly post-religious societies remain structured by religious forms they insist they have escaped.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2003. First edition. Paperback. Published in the \u003cem\u003eShort Circuits\u003c\/em\u003e series. ISBN 978-0-262-74025-7. Light shelf and handling wear to covers, with a few small marks; pages clean and binding sound. Very good condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45963159830611,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/womenintranslation_31.png?v=1786696091","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/the-puppet-and-the-dwarf-the-perverse-core-of-christianity-by-slavoj-zizek","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}