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The Fragile Absolute

The Fragile Absolute

Or, Why Is The Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?

Slavoj Zizek

One of the signal features of our era is the re-emergence of the ‘sacred' in all its different guises, from New Age paganism to the emerging religious sensitivity within cultural and political theory.The wager of Žižek's The Fragile Absolute - published here with a new preface by the author - is that Christianity and Marxism can fight together against the contemporary onslought...

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Penguin
Year of publication:
2009
ISBN:
978-1-84467-302-5
Pages:
192
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One of the signal features of our era is the re-emergence of the ‘sacred' in all its different guises, from New Age paganism to the emerging religious sensitivity within cultural and political theory.The wager of Žižek's The Fragile Absolute - published here with a new preface by the author - is that Christianity and Marxism can fight together against the contemporary onslought of vapid spiritualism. The revolutionary core of the Christian legacy is too precious to be left to the fundamentalists.

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