Why Christianity is so Ingenious or, Why Zizek is (“Only”) Half Right
One of philosopher Slavoj Zizek's most admirable moves is his insistence on the gift's debt-erasingness. But it seems his - and not only his - passion for the gift's gratuity - exemplified by the figure of Christ - obscures what is genuinely ingenious about the gift and the gift of th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
2007
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Pacifica
Year: 2007, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 52-70 |
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| Summary: | One of philosopher Slavoj Zizek's most admirable moves is his insistence on the gift's debt-erasingness. But it seems his - and not only his - passion for the gift's gratuity - exemplified by the figure of Christ - obscures what is genuinely ingenious about the gift and the gift of the Christic that it is dual, duplicitous, double-sided; both gratuitous and circular, both debt-erasing and debt-arousing. To be sure, what is required in an age of an all-calculating capitalism is a remembering and re-affirmation of excess. And yet, in an age of unparalleled ecological squandering, what is also required is a re-commitment to reciprocity. Christianity's Geniestreich therefore appears to lie in its both/and. |
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| ISSN: | 1839-2598 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pacifica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/1030570X0702000104 |