Public lecture: Žižek on "emancipatory political theology"

New York Public Library (NYPL), Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Celeste Bartos Forum, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York City, USA, 9 November 2010, 7.00 pm

Public lecture by Slavoj Žižek: "God Without the Sacred: The Book of Job, The First Critique of Ideology"

www.nypl.org/events/programs/2010/11/09/salvoj-zizek?nref=56896

Description: "The three religions of the Book each help us to differentiate the divine from the sacred. This liberating concept culminates in Paul's claim, from Ephesians, that 'our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against leaders, against authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual wickedness in the heavens.' Can religious fundamentalism be overcome only with the help of an emancipatory political theology? Philosopher Slavoj Zizek debates this and other incendiary questions [...]."

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, and International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London.

$25 general admission, $15 Friends of the NYPL, seniors and students with valid ID. Tickets can be bought from the website above.