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On belief.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Thinking in actionPublication details: London : Routledge, 2001.Description: 170p. ; 21cmISBN:
  • 0415255317
  • 0415255325 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 202 ZIZ
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 202 ZIZ (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002000373606

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

What is the basis of belief in an era when globalization, multiculturalism and big business are the new religion? Slavoj Zizek, renowned philosopher and irrepressible cultural critic takes on all comers in this compelling and breathless new book.
From 'cyberspace reason' to the paradox that is 'Western Buddhism', On Belief gets behind the contours of the way we normally think about belief, in particular Judaism and Christianity. Holding up the so-called authenticity of religious belief to critical light, Zizek draws on psychoanalysis, film and philosophy to reveal in startling fashion that nothing could be worse for believers than their beliefs turning out to be true.

Includes index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction: From Christ to Lenin ... and Back (p. 1)
  • 1 Against the Digital Heresy (p. 6)
  • Gnosticism? No, Thanks! (p. 6)
  • From the Thing to Objects a ... and Back (p. 15)
  • No Sex, Please, We're Digital! (p. 33)
  • The Antinomy of Cyberspace Reason (p. 48)
  • 2 You Should Give a Shit! (p. 56)
  • The Anal Object (p. 56)
  • Sacrifice versus the Feminine Renunciation (p. 68)
  • The Real of the (Christian) Illusion (p. 79)
  • God Resides in Details (p. 89)
  • 3 "Father, Why Did You Forsake Me?" (p. 106)
  • Faith Without Belief (p. 109)
  • The Leninist Freedom (p. 113)
  • Why the Jewish Iconoclasm? (p. 127)
  • Author, Subject, Executioner (p. 137)
  • No Mercy! (p. 142)
  • Notes (p. 152)
  • Index (p. 166)

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