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Slavoj Žižek
1949-03-21 · Ljubljana, Slovenia
A Slovenian continental philosopher and critical theorist working in the traditions of Hegelianism, Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He has made contributions to political theory, film theory, and theoretical psychoanalysis. Žižek is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a professor at the European Graduate School. He has been a visiting professor at, among others, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, London Consortium, Princeton, New York University, The New School, the University of Minnesota, the University of California, Irvine and the University of Michigan. He is currently the International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London and president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Ljubljana. Žižek uses examples from popular culture to explain the theory of Jacques Lacan and uses Lacanian psychoanalysis, Hegelian philosophy and Marxist economic criticism to interpret and speak extensively on immediately current social phenomena.
Known for
Bliss
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Risk
Houston, We Have a Problem!
Žižek!
Examined Life
Catastroika
Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
Great Minds
The Possibility of Hope
Newsnight
Marx Reloaded
Predictions of Fire
Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
Movie credits · 38
The Pervert's Guide to Utopias
Die Macht des Rings
Unexpurgated: Slavoj Zizek
Professor Slavoj Žižek on the Problem with Online Dating
Alice, Through the Looking
An Apology for Modernity
Bliss
Antigone, How Dare We!
Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
Jordan Peterson & Slavoj Žižek - Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
Slavoj Žižek Birthday Special: Politics, Philosophy, and Hardcore Pornography
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
Turn On
Risk
The New Man
The Swap
Houston, We Have a Problem!
Hyperstition
There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People
Balkan Spirit
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Catastroika
Marx Reloaded
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
Alien, Marx & Co. - Zizek Portrait
The Title Was Shot
Hauser and Žižek: Theoreticians of Postmarxist Philosophy
Examined Life
The Possibility of Hope
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Žižek!
Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin
The Old and the New
Predictions of Fire
Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself
Laibach – A Film from Slovenia
Bravo: Laibach in Film
TV credits · 5
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