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The Fragile Absolute

Or, Why Is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?
By Slavoj Zizek
Series: The Essential Zizek
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In The Fragile Absolute, Slavoj Zizek explores the resurgence of the sacred in contemporary culture, ranging from New Age paganism to renewed religious sensitivities in political and cultural theory. Challenging the rise of shallow spiritualism, Zizek argues that Christianity and Marxism together form a powerful alliance to preserve the revolutionary heart of the Christian legacy, asserting its value beyond fundamentalist appropriation.
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This provocative work appeals to readers interested in religion, philosophy, political theory, and cultural criticism, particularly those open to challenging conventional boundaries between Marxism and Christianity.

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Argues that the subversive core of the Christian legacy is much too precious to be left to the fundamentalists. This book also argues that the foundation of a politics of universal emancipation can be found in St Paul, finding an unlikely ally in the reinvention of a twenty first century Marxism.

Argues that the subversive core of the Christian legacy forms the foundation of a politics of universal emancipation

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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 Zizek's The Fragile Absolute—published here with a new preface by the author—is that Christianity and Marxism can fight together against the contemporary onslaught of vapid spiritualism. The revolutionary core of the Christian legacy is too precious to be left to the fundamentalists.

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Zizek launches a fervent critique of modern spiritual trends, seeking an unconventional reconciliation between Marxism and Christianity. The Guardian praises his bold attempt to rethink St Paul for radical Christian thought, while The New Yorker highlights his comprehensive and counterintuitive cultural analysis. The Boston Book Review recognises the subtlety and breadth of his argument across society and popular culture.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781844673025

Publisher: Verso Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 January 2009

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Verso Books

Edition: 2nd edition

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 212g

Pages: 157

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Non-Fiction Religion & Spirituality Series: The Essential Zizek Slavoj Zizek

About the Author

Slavoj Zizek 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 sen-ior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Less Than Nothing, six volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more.

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