Thursday, September 18, 2003
(11:52 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Zizek Appearance in Hyde Park
The following is reproduced from the page of the Seminary Co-op Bookstore that Anthony Smith keeps hearing about:
Slavoj Zizek, The Puppet & The Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity
Monday, September 29th, 2003 at 7 pm at The Oriental Institute, 1155 E. 58th Street
Slovenian professor and activist Slavoj Zizek is the author of such original and engaging works of cultural criticism as Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway, "Kant as a Theoretician of Vampirism," Enjoy Your Symptom, and Nato as the Left Hand of God. Lately, he has turned his attention to religion, and his latest book, The Puppet and the Dwarf, critiques major versions of contemporary spirituality, specifiically, New Age gnosticism and deconstructionist-Levinasian Judaism, and then tries to redeem the "materialist" kernel of Chirstianity, except with less jargon. Zizek is professor of philosophy and psychoanalysis at the Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana.
The Oriental Institute is right across the street from Chicago Theological Seminary. I have never entered the building personally, but I drive by it every time I'm up there during my twenty-minute search for a parking place. The next day, Hans Kung is coming to town. I'd be interested to see a conversation between Kung and Zizek.
