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The fragile absolute, or, Why is the Christian legacy worth fighting for? / Slavoj Žižek.

Author/creator Žižek, Slavoj
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoLondon : Verso, 2008.
Descriptionxxx, 157 pages ; 20 cm.
Subject(s)
Portion of title Why is the Christian legacy worth fighting for?
Series The essential Žižek
Essential Žižek. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents 1. Giving Up the Balkan Ghost -- 2. The Spectre of Capital -- 3. Coke as objet petit a -- 4. From tragique to moque-comique -- 5. Victims, Victims Everywhere -- 6. The Fantasmatic Real -- 7. Why is the Truth Monstrous? -- 8. Of Stones, Lizards and Men -- 9. The Structure and its Events -- 10. From the Decalogue to Human Rights -- 11. The Principle of Charity -- 12. Christ's Uncoupling -- 13. 'You Must, because you can!' 14. From Knowledge to Truth...and back -- 14. The Breakout -- Index
General noteReissued with a new preface by the author - Main text originally published: 2000.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN9781844673025 (pbk.)
ISBN1844673022 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks BT1102 .Z58 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold