{"product_id":"the-puppet-and-the-dwarf-the-perverse-core-of-christianity-9780262740258","title":"The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Slavoj Zizek\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Christian Theology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\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","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47614007607447,"sku":"9780262740258","price":3392.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780262740258.webp?v=1775089592","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-puppet-and-the-dwarf-the-perverse-core-of-christianity-9780262740258","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}