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

Zizek, Slavoj

ISBN 10: 1844673022 / ISBN 13: 9781844673025

Published by Verso, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why Is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For? (The Essential Zizek)
• Publisher: Verso
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844673022
• ISBN 13: 9781844673025
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.