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God in Pain
  • Published: 15 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9781609803698
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $39.99
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God in Pain

Inversions of Apocalypse

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A brilliant dissection and reconstruction of the three major faith-based systems of belief in the world today--Christianity, Judaism, and Islam--by one of the world's most articulate philosophers, Slavoj Zizek, in conversation with fellow Slovenian philosopher and priest Boris Gunjévic.

Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać

In God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse, pyrotechnic Marxist theorist Slavoj Žižek and radical theologian Boris Gunjević offer us not a religious text but a critical inquiry, a work of faith not in God but in the human intellect. With his contagious zeal and his genius for unlikely connections, Žižek calls the bluff on the West's alleged atheism and contemplates the bewildering idea of an Almighty that both suffers and prays. Taking on Žižek's gambits and proposing his own, Gunjević issues a revolutionary clarion call for theology that can break the back of capitalism's cunning "enslavement of desire." With gripping examples and razor-sharp logic, Žižek and Gunjević invoke thinkers from Augustine to Lacan and topics ranging from Christian versus "pagan" ethics to the "class struggle" implied in reading the Qur'an and the role of gender in Islam. Together, they confirm and dissect faith in the twenty-first century, shaking the foundations of the Abrahamic traditions.
  • Published: 15 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9781609803698
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $39.99
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.
portrait photo of Boris Gunjevic

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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Praise for God in Pain

  • "The most dangerous philosopher in the West." --Adam Kirsch, New Review
  • "Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is the master of counterintuitive observation." --The New Yorker