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The Fragile Absolute

Paperback • 2009 • English

The Fragile Absolute

By Slavoj Žižek

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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 ?i?ek'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 fundamentalis...Show more

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9781844673025

Publisher

Verso Books

Published year

2009

Language

English

Original title

The Fragile Absolute

Format

Paperback

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