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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819624603321

Autore

Kotsko Adam

Titolo

Žižek and theology / / Adam Kotsko

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2008

ISBN

0-567-59196-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 p.)

Collana

Philosophy and theology

Disciplina

230.092

Soggetti

Christianity - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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