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Short circuits includes bibliographical references p. What matters is not so much that zizek 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. He is international director at the birkbeck institute for humanities, university of london, uk, visiting professor at the new york university, usa, eminent scholar at kyung hee university, seoul, korea and senior researcher at the department of philosophy, university of ljubljana, slovenia. Zizek argues that the physical violence we see is often generated by the systemic violence that sustains our political and economic systems. The subtitle of his first book edited outside yugoslavia does not leave any doubts. 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. Ill argue that its something disturbing about buddhisms view of the subject thats got zizeks goat. The ultimate american paranoiac fantasy is that of an individual living in a small idyllic californian city, a consumerist paradise, who suddenly starts to suspect that the world he lives in is a fake, a spectacle staged to convince him that he lives. Zizek paper revolutionary pdf download full download pdf book.
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