The New Sacred
Slavoj Žižek
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, prophet of what he calls “enlightened doomsaying,” has long warned that modern society is on a path to self-destruction. In this book, he pleads for a subversion of this crisis from within, arguing that it is our lopsided view of religion and reason that has set us on this course. In denial of our sacred origins and hubristically convinced of the powers of human reason, we cease to know our own limits: our disenchanted world leaves us defenseless against a headlong rush int...
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No, what we were talking about, my most sublime experiences are when two historical epochs collide, so that you talk about something new, but you have only the old language. Like, sorry, just two minu
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