Žižek and theology / Adam Kotsko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kotsko, Adam, author.

Series:

Everyman's library. Theology & philosophy.

Philosophy and theology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Žižek, Slavoj.

Christianity--Philosophy.

Christianity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : T&T Clark, [2008]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Slavoj Žižek 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. Žižek's 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. Žižek has even said that "to become a true dialectical materialist, one should go through the Christian experience." But Žižek's work on Christianity often overwhelms students of theology. To be sure, Žižek's style of argumentation is unusual and his concepts are complex. But the more basic problem is that his work on Christianity is a further development of a broader intellectual project established in many 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 Žižek to an explicit engagement with Christianity and how both his earlier and more recent works are relevant for theological reflection.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: A materialist theology?; The approach of this book; Hegel; Lacan; Marx; 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; 2 Subjectivity and ethics; The Real as sexual difference; The 'vanishing mediator'; Fantasy and the big Other; Diagnosing ethics; The cure; 3 The Christian experience; Prefiguring the theological turn; A politics of truth; The reign of perversion; Job and Judaism; Cross and collective

Love beyond the law4 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; 5 Theological responses; An inventory of theological themes; Responses from Radical Orthodoxy; Other theological responses; Žižek's 'method of correlation'; Ž&#i382; ek and tradition; Religionless Christianity and the death of God; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-170) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780567591968

0567591964