{"product_id":"neighbor-book-slavoj-zizek-9780226707396","title":"The Neighbor","description":"In \"Civilization and Its Discontents\", Freud made abundantly clear what he thought about the biblical injunction, first articulated in \"Leviticus 19:18\" and then elaborated in Christian teachings, to love one's neighbor as oneself. \"Let us adopt a naive attitude towards it,\" he proposed, \"as though we were hearing it for the first time; we shall be unable then to suppress a feeling of surprise and bewilderment.\" After the horrors of World War II, the Holocaust, Stalinism, and Yugoslavia, \"Leviticus 19:18\" seems even less conceivable - but all the more urgent now - than Freud imagined. In \"The Neighbor\", three of the most significant intellectuals working in psychoanalysis and critical theory collaborate to show how this problem of neighbor-love opens questions that are fundamental to ethical inquiry and that suggest a new theological configuration of political theory. Their three extended essays explore today's central historical problem: the persistence of the theological in the political. In \"Towards a Political Theology of the Neighbor,\" Kenneth Reinhard supplements Carl Schmitt's political theology of the enemy and friend with a political theology of the neighbor based in psychoanalysis. In \"Miracles Happen,\" Eric L Santner extends the book's exploration of neighbor-love through a bracing reassessment of Benjamin and Rosenzweig. And in an impassioned plea for ethical violence, Slavoj Zizek's \"Neighbors and Other Monsters\" reconsiders the idea of excess to rehabilitate a positive sense of the inhuman and challenge the influence of Levinas on contemporary ethical thought. A rich and suggestive account of the interplay between love and hate, self and other, personal and political, \"The Neighbor\" will prove to be a touchstone across the humanities and a crucial text for understanding the persistence of political theology in secular modernity.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49974141321489,"sku":"CIN0226707393G","price":4.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50323977175313,"sku":"CIN0226707393VG","price":6.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52979140493585,"sku":"GOR004796785","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226707393.jpg?v=1750974115","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/neighbor-book-slavoj-zizek-9780226707396","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}