The Puppet and the Dwarf
Subtitle: The Perverse Core of Christianity (Short Circuits)
Series: Short Circuit
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: October 12, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780262740258
Subjects: Philosophy of religion; Philosophy; General; Psychology; Theology - Academic; Christian Theology - General; Movements - Psychoanalysis; Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychoanalysis; Essence, genius, nature; Christianity; Historical materialism
First sentence: Today, when the historical materialist analysis is receding, practiced as it were under cover, rarely called by its proper name, while the theological dimension is given a new lease on life in the guise of the "postsecular" Messianic turn of deconstruction, the time has come to reverse Walter Benjamin's first thesis on the philosophy of history: The puppet called 'theology' is to win all the time.