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  1. Slavoj Zizek

    Slavoj Žižek (born March 21, 1949, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia [now in Slovenia]) is a Slovene philosopher and cultural theorist whose works address themes in psychoanalysis, politics, and popular culture. The broad compass of Žižek's theorizing, his deliberately provocative style, and his tendency to leaven his works with humour made him a ...

  2. Slavoj Žižek

    Žižek was born in Ljubljana, PR Slovenia, Yugoslavia, into a middle-class family. [11] His father Jože Žižek was an economist and civil servant from the region of Prekmurje in eastern Slovenia. His mother Vesna, a native of the Gorizia Hills in the Slovenian Littoral, was an accountant in a state enterprise. His parents were atheists. [12]

  3. Žižek, Slavoj

    Biography. Slavoj Žižek was born in 1949 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He grew up in the comparative cultural freedom of the former Yugoslavia's self-managing socialism. Here—significantly for his work— Žižek was exposed to the films, popular culture and theory of the noncommunist West. Žižek completed his PhD at Ljubljana in 1981 on ...

  4. Slavoj Zizek Biography

    Slavoj Zizek Biography. Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek (born 1949) is an academic star, the "Elvis of Cultural Studies," according to one often-quoted journalistic formulation. His lectures, dealing in ideas that are often dense to the point of impenetrability, draw crowds numbering in the hundreds, with their mix of philosophical theory ...

  5. Slavoj Žižek

    Slavoj Žižek (b. 1949) is a Slovenian-born philosopher and psychoanalyst. He is a professor of philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS, a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, and founder and ...

  6. Žižek: his key ideas explained

    Žižek's early work suggested that the goal of his Lacanian rethinking of ideology was to enable societies to free themselves from "ideological fantasies" - like recurrent ideas of a ...

  7. Slavoj Žižek

    Slavoj Žižek was born on March 21, 1949, in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in the former Yugoslavia. Žižek studied philosophy and sociology as an undergraduate student and completed a master of arts degree in philosophy in 1975 at the University of Ljubljana, writing a 400-page thesis on French structuralism. In 1981, he earned his first doctor of ...

  8. A life in writing: Slavoj Žižek

    A life in writing: Slavoj Žižek. 'Let's speak frankly, no bullshit, most of the left hates me even though I am supposed to be one of the world's leading communist intellectuals'. "T here is an ...

  9. Professor Slavoj Zizek

    Biography. World-renowned public intellectual Professor Slavoj Žižek has published over 50 books (translated into 20 languages) on topics ranging from philosophy and Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, to theology, film, opera and politics, including Lacan in Hollywood and The Fragile Absolute. He was a candidate for, and nearly won, the ...

  10. In-depth interview with Slavoj Žižek

    Biography. Slavoj Žižek was born in Ljubljana, in what was then Yugoslavia, in 1949, and attended Bežigrad High School. He studied philosophy and sociology at Ljubljana University, but in 1973 was denied a post as assistant researcher after his master's thesis on French structuralism was judged to be 'non-Marxist'.

  11. Key Theories of Slavoj Zizek

    Key Theories of Slavoj Zizek By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on April 2, 2017 • ( 5). The Slovenian Lacanian Hegelian Slavoj Zizek (1949- ) is the contemporary dialectician par excellence; the mapping of his identity via the three descriptors that open this sentence, which can be variously positioned and re-positioned, is one way of temporarily locating him.

  12. On my radar: Slavoj Žižek's cultural highlights

    T he Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek was born in Ljubljana in 1949. Wildly prolific, with a love of provocation, he has published more than 50 books and hundreds of ...

  13. Slavoj Žižek: Bloomsbury Publishing (US)

    Biography. Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. ...

  14. Slavoj Žižek

    Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

  15. Zizek, Slavoj

    Slavoj ZizekSlovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek (born 1949) is an academic star, the "Elvis of Cultural Studies," according to one often-quoted journalistic formulation. His lectures, dealing in ideas that are often dense to the point of impenetrability, draw crowds numbering in the hundreds, with their mix of philosophical theory and topical political ideas, both often illustrated by examples ...

  16. Slavoj Zizek: rock star philosopher, communist and TikTok hero

    Sunday March 17 2024, 12.01am, The Times. T o the uninitiated, or, as he would say, the unperplexed, Slavoj Zizek is the closest the left has to a celebrity philosopher. The septuagenarian ...

  17. Complete Zizek bibliography

    2017. Slavoj Žižek. Lenin 2017. Verso. Lenin's originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, Zizek argues in his new study and collection of original texts, Lenin's true greatness can be better grasped in the very last couple of years of his political life.

  18. Slavoj Zizek

    Slavoj Žižek (1949-) is a Slovenian Philosopher and cultural critic. He holds appointments at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, and the European Graduate School (among others). He has published widely on many figures in the history of philosophy ...

  19. What are the key beliefs of Slavoj Žižek? His 10 key ideas

    4) Žižek believes we are all ideological beings. Marx considered ideology to be "false consciousness" and simply one of the ways in which people can be tied down and lose sight of their class interests. Žižek disagrees. He considers human beings to be inherently ideological.

  20. Slavoj Žižek bibliography

    Slavoj Zizek vermisst die Liberalen, findet viele Linke extrem woke und viele Rechte extrem rechts: 19 Nov 2022: Berliner Zeitung: 2022-12-19: Über den Tod der Romantik, vulgäre ChatGPT-Bots und unechten Sex: 25 Feb 2023: Berliner Zeitung: 2023-03-08: In Israel sollte eine Koalition inklusive Palästinenser regieren: 4 Mar 2023: Berliner ...

  21. About Žižek and Heidegger

    Žižek and Heidegger. Žižek and Heidegger offers a radical new interpretation of the work of Slavoj Žižek, one of the world's leading contemporary thinkers, through a study of his relationship with the work of Martin Heidegger. Thomas Brockelman argues that Žižek's oeuvre is largely a response to Heidegger's philosophy of finitude, an immanent critique of it which pulls it in the ...

  22. Slavoj Zizek

    Slavoj Zizek is no ordinary philosopher. Approaching critical theory and psychoanalysis in a recklessly entertaining fashion, Zizek's critical eye alights upon a bewildering and exhilarating range of subjects, from the political apathy of contemporary life, to a joke about the man who thinks he's a chicken, from the ethicial heroism of Keanu Reeves in Speed, to what toilet designs reveal about ...

  23. Slavoj Žižek

    Melancholy and the Act. A Plea for Leninist Intolerance. Critical Response I A Symptom—of What? The Ongoing "Soft Revolution". A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua) Against the Populist Temptation. Schlagend, aber nicht Treffend! Tolerance as an Ideological Category. Intellectuals, Not Gadflies.