With this book Zizek consolidates his reputation as the foremost intellectual gadfly of the postmodern cosmopolis. For anyone interested in the contemporary vogue of the 'theological turn' or theories of 'religion without God,' The Puppet and the Dwarf is indispensable reading...If Socrates underwent a ten-year analysis with Jacques Lacan, the result would be Slavoj Zizek. -- Richard Wolin, Distinguished Professor of History and Comparative Literature, the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Slavoj Zizek, a philosopher and cultural critic, is Senior Researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, and International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London. He is the author of more than thirty books, including Looking Awry- An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture, The Puppet and the Dwarf- The Perverse Core of Christianity, The Parallax View, The Monstrosity of Christ- Paradox or Dialectic (with John Milbank), and Zizek's Jokes (Did you hear the one about Hegel and negation?), these five published by the MIT Press.
A witty, informative trip...both erudite and accessible...
*Leonardo Reviews*
His writing is bold, confident and contentious.
*The Philosopher's Magazine*
The Puppet and the Dwarf is Žižek's most compelling and passionate
writing on Christianity to date.
*Bookforum*
Quite possibly the most entertaining philosopher working today.
Žižek knows how to think the unthinkable.
*Village Voice*
Slavoj Žižek may have the strongest 'brand identity'...of any
cultural theorist now in the marketplace of ideas.
*The Chronicle of Higher Education*
Žižek is the first Marxist to write theology in a post-marxist,
post-secular age.
*In These Times*
...Žižek mixes Pauline speculations with analyses of everything
from G. K. Chesterton to chocolate eggs.
*TLS*
Žižek rarely fails to entertain...
*Library Journal*
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