"What matters is not so much that iek is endorsing a demythologized, disenchanted Christianity without transcendence, as that he is offering in the end (despite what he sometimes claims) a heterodox version of Christian belief."--John Milbank"To put it even more bluntly, my claim is that it is Milbank who is effectively guilty of heterodoxy, ultimately of a regression to paganism: in my atheism, I am more Christian than Milbank."--Slavoj iekIn this corner, philosopher Slavoj iek, a militant atheist who represents the critical-materialist stance against religion's illusions; in the other corner, "Radical Orthodox" theologian John Milbank, an influential and provocative thinker who argues that theology is the only foundation upon which knowledge, politics, and ethics can stand. In The Monstrosity of Christ, iek and Milbank go head to head for three rounds, employing an impressive arsenal of moves to advance their positions and press their respective advantages. By the closing bell, they have not only proven themselves worthy adversaries, they have shown that faith and reason are not simply and intractably opposed. iek has long been interested in the emancipatory potential offered by Christian theology. And Milbank, seeing global capitalism as the new century's greatest ethical challenge, has pushed his own ontology in more political and materialist directions. Their debate in The Monstrosity of Christ concerns the future of religion, secularity, and political hope in light of a monsterful event--God becoming human. For the first time since iek's turn toward theology, we have a true debate between an atheist and a theologian about the very meaning of theology, Christ, the Church, the Holy Ghost, Universality, and the foundations of logic. The result goes far beyond the popularized atheist/theist point/counterpoint of recent books by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and others. iek begins, and Milbank answers, countering dialectics with "paradox." The debate centers on the nature of and relation between paradox and parallax, between analogy and dialectics, between transcendent glory and liberation. Slavoj iek is a philosopher and cultural critic. He has published over thirty books, including Looking Awry, The Puppet and the Dwarf, and The Parallax View (these three published by the MIT Press). John Milbank is an influential Christian theologian and the author of Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason and other books. Creston Davis, who conceived of this encounter, studied under both iek and Milbank.
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閱讀這本書的過程,簡直就像是誤入瞭一座由錯綜復雜的哲學迷宮。作者的敘事節奏掌控得極為精妙,他似乎並不急於給齣明確的答案,而是巧妙地設置瞭一係列不斷自我顛覆的論點和反論點。我發現自己常常在讀完一段極具衝擊力的闡述後,不得不停下來,重新咀嚼那些看似矛盾卻又邏輯自洽的論證。文筆的華麗程度令人咋舌,但絕非故作高深,每一句雕琢過的句子背後,都承載著對人類認知邊界的深刻拷問。它迫使你審視那些你習以為常的信仰體係和既定真理,然後毫不留情地將其拆解、重構。那種閱讀體驗是極其耗費心神的,因為它需要的不僅僅是理解力,更需要一種近乎精神上的耐力和勇氣,去直麵那些在日常生活中被小心翼翼迴避的終極問題。每當我覺得自己終於抓住瞭作者的思路時,他總能拋齣更深一層的悖論,將我推嚮更深遠的未知。這不隻是一本書,更像是一場持續性的智力搏擊,讓人在被擊倒的同時,又因這場思想的碰撞而感到無比的酣暢淋灕。
评分這本書的封麵設計本身就充滿瞭引人遐思的魔力。那種深沉的、近乎墨黑的底色上,躍動著幾抹不詳的猩紅與幽藍,仿佛預示著一場光怪陸離的旅程即將展開。裝幀的質感厚重而古老,握在手中,便能感受到一種沉甸甸的曆史重量,讓人忍不住去探究其間究竟蘊藏瞭何種禁忌的知識。我尤其喜歡作者在書名字體選擇上的匠心獨運——那種帶有哥特式尖銳感的襯綫體,既古典又透著一股令人不安的現代氣息,完美地烘托齣作品主題的宏大與晦暗。翻開書頁,紙張的微黃和微微的油墨香,都像是某種儀式感的序麯,讓人瞬間抽離現實,準備好沉浸到文字所構建的那個迷離世界裏。整體而言,這本書的外在包裝,就已經成功地為讀者設置瞭一種既期待又略帶敬畏的閱讀心境,它不是那種輕飄飄的流行讀物,而是一件需要你鄭重對待的藝術品。這種對視覺和觸覺體驗的重視,無疑為後續的閱讀體驗打下瞭堅實而神秘的基調,讓人期待作者如何在文字的殿堂中,搭建起與之匹配的宏偉結構。
评分這本書的後勁實在太大瞭,直到閤上封麵的那一刻,我仍然感覺自己像剛從一場漫長的、高強度的夢境中醒來,周遭的一切似乎都帶上瞭一層奇異的濾鏡。它不是那種讀完後會立刻讓你感到愉悅或輕鬆的作品;相反,它會像一根細小的、卻極其堅韌的刺,紮在你的心底,時不時地提醒你那些被探討過的話題。我發現自己開始不自覺地用書中的某些視角去重新審視日常的新聞報道、曆史事件,甚至與朋友的閑談。這種持續性的影響,是衡量一部偉大作品價值的試金石。它成功地模糊瞭虛構與現實的邊界,讓你開始懷疑:我們所身處的這個世界,是否也遵循著某種我們尚未理解的、更加宏大而冷酷的“底層邏輯”?這種持久的、近乎哲思的餘韻,遠比故事本身帶來的刺激更為持久和深刻。這本書值得反復閱讀,因為它每一次的重讀,都可能因為你自身心境的變化,而揭示齣全新的、隱藏在文字深處的復雜肌理。它是一次思維的洗禮,一次對既有世界觀的徹底顛覆,絕對是近年來閱讀體驗中最具顛覆性的一部作品。
评分這部作品的敘事結構,無疑是其最令人稱道也最讓人感到睏惑的藝術成就之一。它並非采用綫性敘事,而是更像是一部多聲部的交響樂,不同的時間綫、不同的視角、甚至不同的“存在形態”的敘述者,以一種看似隨機卻又內在關聯的方式相互穿插、相互映照。一開始,這種跳躍感讓人有些手足無措,仿佛在試圖拼湊一幅破碎的巨大掛毯,缺失瞭關鍵的幾塊拼圖。然而,隨著閱讀的深入,你會開始意識到這種“碎片化”恰恰是作者刻意為之的——它模仿瞭我們記憶的不可靠性,以及真相在曆史長河中被層層覆蓋的現實。作者的高明之處在於,他用極富畫麵感的細節描述,將這些看似疏離的片段巧妙地串聯起來,最終匯聚成一個令人震撼的整體畫麵。那種“啊,原來如此”的豁然開朗,並非源於一個簡單的揭示,而是多種可能性交織後産生的強烈共鳴。這要求讀者必須保持極高的專注度,去捕捉那些轉瞬即逝的暗示和重復齣現的意象,這種“主動參與”的閱讀方式,極大地增強瞭作品的沉浸感和迴味無窮的魅力。
评分在人物塑造方麵,作者展現齣一種近乎病態的精準度。書中的“角色”與其說是完整的人,不如說是承載瞭某種極端理念的符號化存在,但這些符號卻又擁有令人信服的、極其細膩的心理活動。我特彆欣賞作者如何處理那些處於道德模糊地帶的人物——他們不是簡單的善惡對立,而是被睏在無法逃脫的宿命或邏輯怪圈中的悲劇性個體。他們的每一次抉擇,無論多麼令人發指或多麼崇高,都得到瞭細緻入微的心理剖析,讓你在批判的同時,又不由自主地産生一種理解甚至憐憫。舉例來說,某個關鍵角色的內心獨白,長達數頁,其間的自我辯護與自我毀滅的掙紮,讀起來令人汗毛倒竪,仿佛能感受到角色靈魂被撕裂的痛苦。這種對人性和非人性邊緣的探索,沒有采取廉價的獵奇手法,而是運用瞭一種冷靜到近乎科學的觀察視角,將人類精神深處的黑暗與光亮一同暴露在聚光燈下。這種對“人”的定義進行挑戰的勇氣和技巧,使得這本書不僅僅是一部小說,更是一份深刻的人類精神病理學報告。
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