The Monstrosity Of Christ by Slavoj Žižek
Paradox or Dialectic?
A provocative theological-philosophical study that recasts Christ as a monstrous paradox whose incarnation, suffering, and resurrection rupture conventional categories of ethics and politics. Drawing on Hegelian dialectics and Lacanian psychoanalysis, the book reads Christian doctrine—especially Pauline universality and the kenotic motif—as an intervention that exposes the limits of liberal tolerance, challenges fixed identities and national loyalties, and forces confrontation with the excess, violence, and exception entailed by any claim to universality. It insists on a radical, unsettling form of Christian universality and responsibility that troubles both believers and secular critics.
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- 2009
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- British
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- Original Language
- English
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