The Neighbor Three Inquiries in Political Theology, with a new Preface, 2nd Edition
Slavoj Žižek, Professor Eric L. Santner, Kenneth Reinhard, "The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology, with a new Preface, 2nd Edition"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 022604520X | 200 pages | PDF | 0.66 MB
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, and Stalinism, Leviticus 19:18 seems even less conceivable-but all the more urgent now-than Freud imagined.