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The Puppet and the Dwarf The Perverse Core of Christianity

Paperback • 2003 • English

The Puppet and the Dwarf The Perverse Core of Christianity

By Slavoj Zizek

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One of our most daring intellectuals offers a Lacanian interpretation of religion, finding that early Christianity was the first revolutionary collective.Slavoj Žižek 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 The Puppet and the Dwarf he offers a close reading of today's religious constellation from the viewpoint of Lacanian psychoanalysis. He crit...Show more

Lacanian psychoanalysis
Psychology of ageing
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9780262740258

Publisher

MIT Press

Published year

2003

Language

English

Original title

The Puppet and the Dwarf The Perverse Core of Christianity

Format

Paperback

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