Das Fleisch der Zeichen. Ein Versuch über Katholizismus, Gretchenfragen und die postmodernen Zeiten
The Flesh of the Signs. An Essy about Catholicism, Crucial Questions and the Postmodern Times

Summary/Abstract: The Christian logic of difference, especially that of the sacrifice, is a drama with its own pleasure economy. This has often been described, but has never been satisfactorily explained in its logic. Slavoj Zizek calls Christ the "excess of life", the "undead more", and his exuberant Lacanisms are characterized by bringing a new jouissance to postmodernity - be it through the implementation of Christian motifs. Could it be that when comparing postmodernism / catholicism, sensuality would clearly stand on the side of faith? The postmodern era lacks the passionate lust, the full drama, the pathos that only arises if there is hope for redemption and fear of damnation. Perhaps there is a lost feeling for the difference in pathetic Christianity and perhaps Catholicism would even be good for postmodern Eros - not for postmodern agape. Of course, the "Eros" does not mean the purple-clad old gentlemen's ceremonies of the curia, not the „Kirchentags“-euphoria in guitar sounds, not the sermons on fire and not the grass-roots organized Cursillo services. What is meant is the pathos of Catholic aesthetics, is the sacred kitsch. It is a serious game or a playful seriousness, which lies in addressing, with better knowledge, a transcendence that we can hardly represent in a known way.

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