LIVE from the NYPL: SLAVOJ ZIZEK,God Without the Sacred: The Book of Job, The First Critique of Ideology

November 9, 2010

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The three religions of the Book each help us to differentiate the divine from the sacred. This liberating concept culminates in Paul's claim, from Ephesians, that "our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against leaders, against authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual wickedness in the heavens."  Can religious fundamentalism be overcome only with the help of an emancipatory political theology? Philosopher Slavoj Zizek debates this and other incendiary questions on the LIVE stage.

This event is sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

SLAVOJ ZIZEK, born 1949 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Senior Researcher at Birkbeck College, University of London, is a Hegelian Philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, Christian atheist, Communist political activist, and he thinks these four features are four aspects of one and the same Cause. His latest publications are: in philosophy THE PARALLAX VIEW, in psychoanalysis HOW TO READ LACAN, in theology THE MONSTROSITY OF CHRIST, and in politics LIVING AT THE END TIMES.