The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology

by Kenneth Reinhard, Slavoj Žižek, Eric L. Santner

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226707393
• ISBN13: 9780226707396
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"