Christian Atheism
How to Be a Real Materialist
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 4 April 2024
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350409316
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 214x136x20 mm
- Weight 380 g
- Language English 1021
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Long description:
If we want to be true atheists, do we have to begin with a religious edifice and undermine it from within?
Slavoj Zizek has long been a commentator on, and critic of, Christian theology. His preoccupation with Badiou's concept of 'the event' alongside the Pauline thought of the New Testament has led to a decidedly theological turn in his thinking. Drawing on traditions and subjects as broad as Buddhist thought, dialectical materialism, political subjectivity, quantum physics, AI and chatbots, this book articulates Zizek's idea of a religious life for the first time.
Christian Atheism is a unique insight into Zizek's theological project and the first book-length exploration of his religious thinking. In his own words, "to become a true dialectical materialist, one should go through the Christian experience." Crucial to his whole conception of 'experience' is not some kind of spiritual revelation but rather the logic of materialistic thought. This affirmation of Christian theology whilst simultaneously deconstructing it is a familiar Zizekian move, but one that holds deep-seated political, philosophical and, in the end, personal import for him.
Here is Zizek's most extensive treatment of theology and religion to date.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Why True Atheism HAS to be Indirect
1. Let a Religion Deplete Itself
2. Why Lacan is not a Buddhist
3. From Superpositions to Athings
4. The Sacred, The Obscene, and the Undead
5. Neque Homo Neque Deus Neque Natura
6. Why Politics is Immanently Theological
Conclusion: The Need for Psychoanalysis
