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The Fragile Absolute

Or, Why Is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?

By Slavoj Zizek

By Slavoj Zizek

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Category: Philosophy | Politics

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Jan 05, 2009 | ISBN 9781844673025

The Fragile Absolute by Slavoj Zizek
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About The Fragile Absolute

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.

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The Day After the Revolution
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
Living in the End Times
In Defense of Lost Causes
Absolute Recoil
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Product Details

Category: Philosophy | Politics

Paperback | $24.95
Published by Verso
Jan 05, 2009 | 192 Pages | 5-6/100 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9781844673025
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Praise

“Righteously to battle the tsunami of postmodern spiritual mush, Žižek attempts a reconciliation between Marxism and Christianity, eccentrically (against Nietzsche) trying to recuperate St Paul for the radical Christian.”—Guardian

“Žižek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation.”—The New Yorker

“This is a subtle argument … Žižek applies it with a broad brush to both contemporary society and popular culture.”—Boston Book Review

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