Paperback | $13.95 Trade | £9.95 | ISBN: 9780262516204 | 320 pp. | 6 x 9 in | February 2011
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The Monstrosity Of Christ
Overview
What matters is not so much that
About the Authors
Slavoj Zizek is a philosopher and cultural critic. He has published over thirty books, including Looking Awry, The Puppet and the Dwarf, and The Parallax View (these three published by the MIT Press).
John Milbank is an influential Christian theologian and the author of Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason and other books.
About the Editor
Creston Davis, who conceived of the encounter between Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank, studied under both men.
Endorsements
"In this dazzling dialogue, Zizek and Milbank change words and cross swords, until the point where both recognize that Christ and Hegel, in their monstrosity, look very much alike. A phenomenal achievement!"
Catherine Malabou, Matre de Conferences, Philosophy Department, Universit
"The contemporary return to the theological most dramatically occurs in this book, as Zizek fully realizes his earlier Hegelian and Lacanian theological work, a work that Milbank can essentially know as a uniquely modern expression of nihilism. Nonetheless Milbank enters into a genuine theological dialogue with this nihilism, and a truly new theological discourse occurs. This effects a paradoxical union between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, and between radical orthodoxy and radical heterodoxy, which is perhaps the deepest motif of the contemporary return to the theological."
Thomas J. J. Altizer, author of Godhead and the Nothing