With typical brio and boldness, Slavoj Zizek argues in The Fragile Absloute that the subversive core of the Christian legacy is much too precious to be left to the fundamentalists. Here is a fitting contribution from a Marxist to the 2000th anniversary of one who was well aware that to practice love in our world is to bring in the sword and fire.

Author Biography

Slavoj Zizek is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies in Ljubljana. His other books include The Plague of Fantasies, The Indivisible Remainder, The Sublime Object of Ideology, For They Know Not What They Do, Metastases of Enjoyment, Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan (But were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock), The Ticklish Subject and Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism.