Slavoj Žižek and Christianity

Sotiris Mitralexis is Seeger Fellow at Princeton University, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the City University of Istanbul (İstanbul Şehir Üniversitesi) and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Winchester. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Divinity and a Visiting Senior Research Associate at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He received a doctorate in philosophy from the Freie Universität Berlin, a doctorate in theology from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and a degree in classics from the University of Athens. His publications include Ever-Moving Repose: A Contemporary Reading of Maximus the Confessor’s Theory of Time.Dionysios Skliris is a Teaching Fellow at the Faculty of Theology, University of Athens. He received a doctorate from the Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines of the University of Paris (Sorbonne – Paris IV). He studied classics and theology at the University of Athens and completed a Master’s degree in Late Antique Philosophy at the University of London (King’s College) as well as a Master’s degree in Byzantine Literature at the University of Paris (Sorbonne – Paris IV).

• 1 The Slovenian and the Cross: Transcending Christianity’s Perverse Core with Slavoj Žižek 2 Žižek and the Dialectical Materialist Theory of Belief 3 From Psychoanalysis to Metamorphosis: The Lacanian Limits of Žižek’s Theology 4 "No wonder, then, that love itself disappears": Neighbor-Love in Žižek and Meister Eckhart 5 Concrete Universality: Only That Which Is Non-All Is for All 6 Pacifist Pluralism versus Militant Truth: Christianity at the Service of Revolution in the Work of Slavoj Žižek 7 Rethinking Universality: Badiou and Žižek on Pauline Theology Jack Louis Pappas 8 „Rühre Nicht, Bock! Denn es brennt": Schelling, Žižek and Christianity Sinan Richards 9 Murder at the Vicarage: Žižek’s Chesterton as a Way out of Christianity Bruce J. Krajewski 10 Žižek and the Dwarf: a Short-Circuit Radical Theology Mike Grimshaw Afterword: The Antinomies That Keep Christianity Alive, Slavoj Žižek