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God Without the Sacred

Slavoj Žižek
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Jul 2, 20269 November 2010New York Public Library on November 9
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“God Without the Sacred: The Book of Job, The First Critique of Ideology” – a lecture by Slavoj Zizek at New York Public Library on November 9, 2010.

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The transcript is a complex philosophical and theological discourse exploring the concepts of God, religion, atheism, ethics, and the sacred. It critically examines the role of religion and ideology in justifying violence, the paradoxes of faith and freedom, and the challenges of modern secular and ecological thought. The speaker intertwines psychoanalytic, historical, and cultural insights to question traditional and contemporary beliefs about divinity, morality, and societal structures.

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