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Zizek and Theology Adam Kotsko

Zizek and Theology By Adam Kotsko

Zizek and Theology by Adam Kotsko


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Slavoj Zizek has been called an academic rock star. Zizek's work includes extended treatments of key Christian thinkers from Paul and Pascal to Kierkegaard. This book helps students in understanding Zizek's works with an eye toward what brings him to an explicit engagement with Christianity.

Zizek and Theology Summary

Zizek and Theology by Adam Kotsko

Slavoj has been called an academic rock star. As public visibility of the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst increases, so too does the depth of his engagement with Christian theology. recent work includes extended treatments of key Christian thinkers from Paul, Pascal, and Kierkegaard to G. K. Chesterton and C. S. Lewis, while Christology and other theological themes have provided crucial points of reference. Ek has even said that to become a true dialectical materialist, one should go through the Christian experience. But ek's work on Christianity often overwhelms students of theology. To be sure, ek's style of argumentation is unusual and his concepts are complex. But the more basic problem is that the work on Christianity is a further development of a broader intellectual project established in many thick volumes produced in the course of the 1990s. This book will bring students of theology up to speed on this broader intellectual project, with an eye toward what brings him to an explicit engagement with Christianity and how both his earlier and more recent works are relevant for theological reflection.

Zizek and Theology Reviews

a useful introduction to Zizek's theological writing - and it will be especially useful for those who've been wanting to read Zizek, but don't know where to start Dr Benjamin Myers, Faith and Theology Blog
this remains the best introduction to Zizek and theology currentlt available theologians sarching for handles by which to grapple with Zizek are indebted to Kotsko for his work Religious studies Review, June 2009 -- Myle Werntz, Baylor University
Kotsko provides an excellent review of Zizek's writing on ideology and subjectivity... [The author] helps non-Christians appreciate how far Zizek is immersed in these other worlds, and the complexity and depth of his argument for a dialectical material standpoint... -- Subjectivity Vol. 3, 1, 122-124

About Adam Kotsko

Adam Kotsko is a teaching assistant at Chicago Theological Seminary, USA.

Table of Contents

Part I; Introduction - A Materialist Theology?; Short biography; General overview of Zizek's trajectory; 1. Ideology critique and nationalism (early 90's); 2. Theory of revolutionary subjectivity (late 90's/early 2000's); 3. Philosophy of freedom (current work); Initial background; 1. Basic concepts of Lacanian psychoanalysis used by Zizek; 2. The Hegelian style of argument; 3. Zizek's materialism: revising Marx, reviving Lenin; 4. Use of popular culture; Part II; 1. Ideology critique (Sublime Object of Ideology); 2. A theory of nationalism (Tarrying With the Negative); 3. The revolutionary subject (The Ticklish Subject); 4. The subversive core of Christianity (Fragile Absolute, Puppet and the Dwarf, The Parallax View); 5. Freedom and materialism (The Parallax View); 6. Appendix: Cultural and political analysis; Part III; 1. The reception/response in theology; 2. Radical Orthodox critics; 3. Assessing Zizek's contribution as a philosophical reader of Paul; 4. Possible future connections; 5. Zizek in light of Bonhoeffer's religionless Christianity; 6. Zizek and death of God theology.

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NLS9780567032454
9780567032454
0567032450
Zizek and Theology by Adam Kotsko
New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2008-05-26
182
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