Zizek and Theology

Zizek and Theology

by Adam Kotsko
ISBN-10:
0567032450
ISBN-13:
9780567032454
Pub. Date:
07/26/2008
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN-10:
0567032450
ISBN-13:
9780567032454
Pub. Date:
07/26/2008
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Zizek and Theology

Zizek and Theology

by Adam Kotsko

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Overview

Slavoj has been called an "academic rock star." As public visibility of the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst increases, so too does the depth of his engagement with Christian theology. recent work includes extended treatments of key Christian thinkers from Paul, Pascal, and Kierkegaard to G. K. Chesterton and C. S. Lewis, while Christology and other theological themes have provided crucial points of reference. Ek has even said that "to become a true dialectical materialist, one should go through the Christian experience. But ek's work on Christianity often overwhelms students of theology. To be sure, ek's style of argumentation is unusual and his concepts are complex. But the more basic problem is that the work on Christianity is a further development of a broader intellectual project established in many thick volumes produced in the course of the 1990s. This book will bring students of theology up to speed on this broader intellectual project, with an eye toward what brings him to an explicit engagement with Christianity and how both his earlier and more recent works are relevant for theological reflection.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780567032454
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 07/26/2008
Series: Philosophy and Theology
Pages: 182
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Adam Kotsko is Visiting Assistant Professorof Religions at Kalamazoo College (USA). His current research interests include 20th century European philosophy and early Christian thought.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Materialist Theology?
The Approach of This Book
Hegel
Lacan
Marx

Chapter 1: Ideology Critique
Ideology in Practice
The Challenge of Cynicism
Ideology and the big Other
The Stumbling Block of the Real
Keeping Enjoyment at Bay
Liberal Democracy and Nationalism

Chapter 2: Subjectivity and Ethics
The Real as Sexual Difference
The "Vanishing Mediator"
Fantasy and the Big Other
Diagnosing Ethics
The Cure

Chapter 3: The Christian Experience
Prefiguring the Theological Turban
A Politics of Truth
The Reign of Perversion
Job and Judaism
Cross and Collective
Love Beyond the Law

Chapter 4: Dialectical Materialism, or The Philosophy of Freedom
What is Dialectical Materialism?
Self-Consciousness as Short Circuit
The Anti-Adaptive Animal
Theological Materialism
The Politics of Refusal, or, Waiting on the Holy Spirit

Chapter 5: Theological Responses
An Inventory of Theological Themes
Responses from Radical Orthodoxy
Other Theological Responses
Žižek's "Method of Correlation"
Žižek and Tradition
Religionless Christianity and the Death of God

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