The Fragile Absolute by Slavoj Žižek
Or, Why Is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?
A provocative theological-philosophical meditation that defends the radical, paradoxical core of Christianity as a resource for political and ethical commitment, arguing that the true absolute is fragile because it depends on contingent acts of love and sacrifice rather than metaphysical certainty. Drawing on Hegelian dialectics and Lacanian psychoanalysis, it critiques both secular liberal tolerance and religious fundamentalism and contends that Christianity’s universalism—the demand of self-emptying love and the sanctity of singular ethical acts—offers tools for rethinking justice, violence, and resistance to capitalist ideology.
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- Published
- 2000
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- British
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