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The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why Is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?

by Slavoj Zizek · 2000

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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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philosophyphilosophyMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of thispsychologypsychologyMore like thisLess of thisliterary criticismliterary criticismMore like thisLess of thisreligionreligionMore like thisLess of this
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religionreligionMore like thisLess of thisChristianChristianMore like thisLess of thismoralitymoralityMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of thisspiritualityspiritualityMore like thisLess of this
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HungaryHungaryMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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short · 184 pages
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