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Short Circuits eBook Series

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  • The Puppet and the Dwarf

    The Perverse Core of Christianity

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series Short Circuits
    One of our most daring intellectuals offers a Lacanian interpretation of religion, finding that early Christianity was the first revolutionary collective.Slavoj Žižek has been called "an academic rock star" and "the wild man of theory"; his writing mixes astonishing erudition and references to pop culture in order to dissect current intellectual pieties. In The Puppet and the Dwarf he offers a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Parallax View

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series Short Circuits
    In Žižek's long-awaited magnum opus, he theorizes the "parallax gap" in the ontological, the scientific, and the political—and rehabilitates dialectical materialism.The Parallax View is Slavoj Žižek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Žižek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Monstrosity of Christ

    Paradox or Dialectic?

    by Slavoj Zizek, John Milbank ...
    Series series Short Circuits
    A militant Marxist atheist and a “Radical Orthodox” Christian theologian square off on everything from the meaning of theology and Christ to the war machine of corporate mafia.“What matters is not so much that Žižek is endorsing a demythologized, disenchanted Christianity without transcendence, as that he is offering in the end (despite what he sometimes claims) a heterodox version of Christian ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Incontinence of the Void

    Economico-Philosophical Spandrels

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series Short Circuits
    The “formidably brilliant” Žižek considers sexuality, ontology, subjectivity, and Marxian critiques of political economy by way of Lacanian psychoanalysis.If the most interesting theoretical interventions emerge today from the interspaces between fields, then the foremost interspaceman is Slavoj Žižek. In Incontinence of the Void (the title is inspired by a sentence in Samuel Beckett's late ... Read more

    $13.99 USD