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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Žižek, Slavoj. Monstrosity of Christ. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009 (DLC) 2008035984 (OCoLC)244352641 |
| Named Person: | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; John Milbank; Slavoj Žižek; Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; John Milbank; Slavoj Zizek |
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Slavoj Žižek; John Milbank; Creston Davis |
| ISBN: | 9780262254816 0262254816 9786612240256 6612240253 9780262012713 0262012715 |
| OCLC Number: | 318458278 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (311 p.) |
| Contents: | Introduction : Holy Saturday or Resurrection Sunday? : staging an unlikely debate / Creston Davis -- The fear of four wordsd : a modest plea for the Hegelian reading of Christianity / Slavoj Žižek -- The double glory, or, Paradox versus dialectics : on not quite agreeing with Slavoj Žižek / John Milbank -- Dialectical clarity versus the misty conceit of paradox / Slavoj Žižek. |
| Series Title: | Short circuits. |
| Responsibility: | Slavoj Žižek, John Milbank ; edited by Creston Davis. |
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"The contemporary return to the theological most dramatically occurs in this book, as Zizek fully realizes his earlier Hegelian and Lacanian theological work, a work that Milbank can essentially know as a uniquely modern expression of nihilism. Nonetheless Milbank enters into a genuine theological dialogue with this nihilism, and a truly new theological discourse occurs. This effects a paradoxical union between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, and between radical orthodoxy and radical heterodoxy, which is perhaps the deepest motif of the contemporary return to the theological." --Thomas J. J. Altizer, author of Godhead and the Nothing "In this dazzling dialogue, Zizek and Milbank change words and cross swords, until the point where both recognize that Christ and Hegel, in their monstrosity, look very much alike. A phenomenal achievement!" --Catherine Malabou, Maitre de Conferences, Philosophy Department, Universite Paris-X Nanterre Read more...

