Potwór i przetwór. Ewangelia według Žižka

Despite the fact that the starting point of the article is an attempt to analyse the views of Slavoj Žižek presented in his discussion with a theologian John Milbank in the book The Monstrosity of Christ (2009), the articles’ main goal is to analyse Žižek’s discoursive style, and the attempt to answer the question about his popularity in contemporary humanistic discourse. The analysis of the title’s metaphor The Monstrosity of Christ and the formulations of monstrosity from the author’s previous publications – The Sublime Object of Ideology, The Fragile Absolute and The Puppet and the Dwarf – leads to an attempt to analyse the Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion by G.W. Hegel. In that light Žižek’s statements seem to be a final product of a consequent “preparation of the Gospel” – not in Hegel’s terms as preparatio evangelica, but as discourse. This suggests the necessity to abandon the question of the “monstrosity of Christ” and direct the attention towards the “monstrous” structure of the texts written by the author of Revolution at the Gates. This attempt is made by means of description a as well as parody; hence the romantic comedy Notting Hill becomes a basic text of culture which brings us closer to the understanding of the features of Žižek’s style of discourse.