title: The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology (Religion and Postmodernism)
author: Slavoj iek
description: <div><B>Slavoj &#381;i&#382;ek</B> is professor of philosophy at the University of Ljubljana. His numerous books include <I>Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle</I> and <I>The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity</I>. <B>Eric L. Santner</B> is professor in and chair of the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of four books, most recently <I>On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig</I>. <B>Kenneth Reinhard </B>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 <I>After Oedipus: Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis</I>.<br></div>
zlib_text: The Neighbor
  
  RELIGION AND POSTMODERNISM
  A series edited by Mark C. Taylor and Thomas A. Carlson
  
  The Neighbor
  Three Inquiries in Political Theology
  S L A V O J  Zˇ I Zˇ E K
  E R I C  L .  S A N T N E R
  K E N N E T H  R E I N H A R D
  The University of Chicago Press
  Chicago and London
  
  S L AV O J  Zˇ I Zˇ E K 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.
  E R I C  L .  S A N T N E R 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.
  K E N N E T H  R E I N H A R D 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,