{"product_id":"the-fragile-absolute-or-why-is-the-christian-legacy-worth-fighting-for-9781844673025","title":"The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why Is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?","description":"One of the signal features of our era is the re-emergence of the 'sacred' in all its different guises, from New Age paganism to the emerging religious sensitivity within cultural and political theory. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe wager of Žižek's \u003ci\u003eThe Fragile Absolute\u003c\/i\u003e - published here with a new preface by the author - is that Christianity and Marxism can fight together against the contemporary onslought of vapid spiritualism. The revolutionary core of the Christian legacy is too precious to be left to the fundamentalists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSlavoj Žižek\u003c\/b\u003e is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include \u003ci\u003eLiving in the End Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFirst as Tragedy, Then as Farce\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn Defense of Lost Causes\u003c\/i\u003e, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50433267990802,"sku":"9781844673025","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c58f948b-225e-4abd-8e15-e68c01bba3ca.jpg?v=1729565321","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-fragile-absolute-or-why-is-the-christian-legacy-worth-fighting-for-9781844673025","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}