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The Neighbor

RELIGION AND POSTMODERNISM

A series edited by Mark C. Taylor and Thomas A. Carlson

The Neighbor

Three Inquiries in Political Theology

SL AVOJ ˇ I ˇ EK

ERIC L. SANTNER

KENNETH REINHARD

The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London

SLAVOJ ˇ I ˇ EK is professor of philosophy at the University of

Ljubljana. His numerous books include Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle and

The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity.

ERIC L. SANTNER is professor in and chair of the Department

of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago. His most recent

book is On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reﬂections on Freud

and Rosenzweig.

KENNETH REINHARD is associate professor of English and

comparative literature at the University of California, Los Angeles,

where he also directed the Center for Jewish Studies. He is coauthor

of After Oedipus: Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis.

The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637

The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London

Printed in the United States of America

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ISBN: 0-226-70738-5 (cloth)

ISBN: 0-226-70739-3 (paper)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

ˇ iˇek, Slavoj.

The neighbor : three inquiries in political theology / Slavoj ˇ iˇek,

Eric L. Santner, Kenneth Reinhard.

p. cm. — (Religion and postmodernism)

ISBN 0-226-70738-5 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-226-70739-3

(pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Political theology. 2. Church and social problems. I. Santner,

Eric L., 1955 –. II. Reinhard, Kenneth, 1957–. III. Title. IV. Series.

BT83.59 .Z59 2006

177

2005016280

The paper used in this publication meets the minimum require-

ments of the American National Standard for Information Sciences —

Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992.

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