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 Gunjevic. God in Pain shows how each faith understands humanity and divinity - and how the differences between the faiths may be far stranger than they may at first seem.

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"Zizek has only to clap eyes on a received truth to feel the intolerable itch to deface it Zizek is that rare breed of writer one who is both lucid and esoteric. If he is sometimes hard to understand, it is because of the intricacy of his ideas, not because of a self-preening style."Terry Eagleton

"The most dangerous philosopher in the West."Adam Kirsch, New Review

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Slovenian philosopher and critical theoristSLAVOJ ZIZEKis among the most distinguished intellectuals of the twenty-first century. He has been a visiting professor at Princeton, Columbia, and NYU and continues to teach worldwide.BORIS GUNJVICserves as a lecturer in ethics at the Biblijski Institut in Zagreb, Croatia. He is the author ofCrucified Subject: Without the Grail.ELLEN ELIAS-BURSAC's translations have appeared in Best European Fiction 2010,Harpers, andGranta. She is the winner of the 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship (The Goldsmith's Gold) and the 2006 National Translation Award (Gtz and Meyer).