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God in Pain
  • Published: 17 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9781609803704
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288
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God in Pain

Inversions of Apocalypse

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17 Apr 2012
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A brilliant dissection and reconstruction of the three major faith-based systems of belief in the world today, from one of the world's most articulate intellectuals, Slavoj Zizek, in conversation with Croatian philosopher Boris Gunjévic. In six chapters that describe Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in fresh ways using the tools of Hegelian and Lacanian analysis, God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse shows how each faith understands humanity and divinity—and how the differences between the faiths may be far stranger than they may at first seem. 

Chapters include (by Zizek) (1) "Christianity Against Sacred," (2) "Glance into the Archives of Islam," (3) "Only Suffering God Can Save Us," (4) "Animal Gaze," (5) "For the Theologico-Political Suspension of the Ethical," (by Gunjevic) (1) "Mistagogy of Revolution," (2) "Virtues of Empire," (3) "Every Book Is Like Fortress," (4) "Radical Orthodoxy," (5) "Prayer and Wake."
  • Published: 17 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9781609803704
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288
Categories:

About the authors

Slavoj Zizek

Philosopher and cultural critic SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK is internationally recognized for his works on psychoanalysis, Hegel, cinema, political theory, and current events. He teaches at the European Graduate School and has been a visiting professor at Université de Paris VIII, Columbia, and Princeton, among other institutions. He is founder and president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and is the author of many books on topics ranging from Christianity to the films of David Lynch. His books include God in Pain: Inversions of the Apocalypse, Like a Thief in Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism, and Too Late To Awaken: What Lies Ahead When There Is No Future?, all three published by Seven Stories Press
portrait photo of Slavoj Zizek

Boris Gunjevic

BORIS GUNJEVIĆ is a theologian, priest, and professor of history of philosophy and liturgy. He has taught in several schools and theological colleges on systematic theology, radical theology, and the history of philosophy, among other subjects. He is the co-author of God in Pain: Inversions of the Apocalypse with Slavoj Žižek, and his forthcoming books include A Handbook for Militant Research and The Carpentry of John Milbank. He lives in Zagreb.
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Ellen Elias-Bursac

ELLEN ELIAS-BURSAĆ translates fiction and nonfiction from Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian. She has taught in the Harvard University Slavic Department and is a contributing editor to Asymptote. She has translated all of Ivana Bodrožić’s books for Seven Stories along with Robert Perisic’s novel No-Signal Area. She lives in Boston.
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