{"product_id":"puppet-and-the-dwarf-the-perverse-core-of-christianity","title":"Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003ePuppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eSlavoj Zizek\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780262740258\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eMIT Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2003\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e196\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of our most daring intellectuals offers a Lacanian interpretation of religion, finding that early Christianity was the first revolutionary collective.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eSlavoj Zizek has been called \"an academic rock star\" and \"the wild man of theory\"; his writing mixes astonishing erudition and references to pop culture in order to dissect current intellectual pieties. In \u003ci\u003eThe Puppet and the Dwarf\u003c\/i\u003e he offers a close reading of today's religious constellation from the viewpoint of Lacanian psychoanalysis. He critically confronts both predominant versions of today's spirituality--New Age gnosticism and deconstructionist-Levinasian Judaism--and then tries to redeem the \"materialist\" kernel of Christianity. His reading of Christianity is explicitly political, discerning in the Pauline community of believers the first version of a revolutionary collective. Since today even advocates of Enlightenment like Jurgen Habermas acknowledge that a religious vision is needed to ground our ethical and political stance in a \"postsecular\" age, this book--with a stance that is clearly materialist and at the same time indebted to the core of the Christian legacy--is certain to stir controversy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity | Slavoj Zizek | Paperback | 9780262740258 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks R 1781948","offer_id":49981525131416,"sku":"1781948","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71figAc6YtL.jpg?v=1790183413","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/puppet-and-the-dwarf-the-perverse-core-of-christianity","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}