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SLAVOJ ZIZEK considers The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT. Missed out on tickets? Prof. Zizek will introduce City Lights, screening at 8 pm at the Brattle. See brattlefilm.org for these film tickets.
Harvard Book Store is delighted to welcome once again renowned philosopher and critic SLAVOJ ZIZEK to the Brattle Theatre, this time for a discussion of his new book, The Monstrosity of Christ, in which he debates the meaning of theology, Christ, the Church, the Holy Ghost, universality, and the foundations of logic with theologian John Millbank. In The Monstrosity of Christ, Zizek and Milbank go head to head for three rounds, employing an impressive arsenal of moves to advance their positions and press their respective advantages. By the closing bell, they have proven themselves worthy adversaries--and have also shown that faith and reason are not simply and intractably opposed. "In this dazzling dialogue, Zizek and Milbank change words and cross swords, until the point where both recognize that Christ and Hegel, in their monstrosity, look very much alike. A phenomenal achievement!" —Catherine Malabou, Maître de Conferences, Philosophy Department, Université Paris-X Nanterre
"The contemporary return to the theological most dramatically occurs in this book, as Zizek fully realizes his earlier Hegelian and Lacanian theological work, a work that Milbank can essentially know as a uniquely modern expression of nihilism. Nonetheless Milbank enters into a genuine theological dialogue with this nihilism, and a truly new theological discourse occurs. This effects a paradoxical union between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, and between radical orthodoxy and radical heterodoxy, which is perhaps the deepest motif of the contemporary return to the theological." —Thomas J. J. Altizer (Godhead and the Nothing) Mr. Zizek will also be introducing the 8 p.m. screening of City Lights at the Brattle (separate tickets, sold sepatately through the Brattle). City Lights(1931), directed by Charlie Chaplin, starring Chaplin and Virginia Cherrill [87 min], ranks among Chaplin's masterpieces. It tells the touching story of a tramp (Chaplin) who is mistaken for a rich man by a beautiful blind flower seller with whom he is instantly smitten. Tickets for the screening sold separately through the Brattle Theatre.
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Slavoj Zizek is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and has been a visiting professor at Columbia University, Princeton, and The New School. He is the author of more than thirty books and is the subject of the documentary, Zizek. His own critically acclaimed documentary, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, was the subject of a film retrospective in 2007 at the Museum of Modern Art.
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