[[Image:SlavojZizekOxfordAmnestyLecture20040128 KaihsuTai adjustedHephaestos.jpg|right|frame|Slavoj Žižek]]
'''Slavoj Žižek''' (born [[March 21]], [[1949]]) is a [[Slovenians|Slovenian]] [[sociologist]], [[philosopher]] and [[cultural critic]]. He was born in [[Ljubljana]], [[Slovenia]] (then part of [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]), and received a [[Doctor of Arts|D.A.]] in Philosophy in Ljubljana and studied [[Psychoanalysis]] at the [[University of Paris]]. In [[1990]] he was a candidate with the party "[[Liberal Democracy of Slovenia]]" for president of the Republic of Slovenia.
Slavoj Žižek (born March 21, 1949) is a Slovenian sociologist, philosopher and cultural critic. He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia), and received a D.A. in Philosophy in Ljubljana and studied Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris. In 1990 he was a candidate with the party "Liberal Democracy of Slovenia" for president of the Republic of Slovenia. Žižek is well known for his use of the works of [[Jacques Lacan]] in a new reading of [[popular culture]]. In addition to his work as an interpreter of [[Jacques Lacan|Lacanian psychoanalysis]], he writes on countless topics, such as [[fundamentalism]], [[tolerance]], [[political correctness]], [[globalization]], [[subjectivity]], [[human rights]], [[Lenin]], [[myth]], [[cyberspace]], [[Postmodern philosophy|postmodernism]], [[multiculturalism]], [[David Lynch]], and [[Alfred Hitchcock]].
==Life and work==
Žižek is a professor at the [[European Graduate School]] and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, [[University of Ljubljana]], Slovenia. He has been a visiting professor at the [[University of Chicago]], [[Columbia University|Columbia]], [[Princeton University|Princeton]], [[New School for Social Research]], [[New York City|New York]], the [[University of Minnesota]] and the [[University of Michigan]]. He is currently the International Director of the [[Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities]] at [[Birkbeck College]], University of London. Recently, Žižek caused a stir in the world of social theory by writing the text of a catalogue for [[Abercrombie & Fitch]]. He is widely regarded as a fiery and colorful lecturer who does not shy away from controversial remarks.
Recently, Žižek caused a stir in the world of social theory by writing the text of a catalogue for Abercrombie & Fitch. He is widely regarded as a fiery and colorful lecturer who does not shy away from controversial remarks.
== Bibliography ==
[[Image:Zizek.jpg|frame|Žižek in San Francisco, [[April 21]], [[2005]].]]
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| title=The Sublime Object of Ideology
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*{{cite book
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| title=Beyond Discourse Analysis (in ''New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time'')
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| year=1990
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| title=For They Know Not What They Do
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| title=Looking Awry
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| year=1991
| publisher=MIT Press
| location=Cambridge, MA
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*{{cite book
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| title=Enjoy Your Symptom!
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| year=1992
| publisher=Routledge
| location=London
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*{{cite book
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| title=Tarrying with the Negative
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| year=1993
| publisher=Duke University Press
| location=Durham, NC
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*{{cite book
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| title=Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan...But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock
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| year=1993
| publisher=Verso
| location=London
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*{{cite book
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| title=The Metastases of Enjoyment
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| year=1994
| publisher=Verso
| location=London
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*{{cite book
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| title=The Indivisible Remainder: Essays on Schelling and Related Matters
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| year=1996
| publisher=Verso
| location=London
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*{{cite book
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| title=The Abyss of Freedom
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| year=1997
| publisher=University of Michigan Press
| location=Michigan
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*{{cite book
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| title=The Plague of Fantasies
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| year=1997
| publisher=Verso
| location=London
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*{{cite book
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| title=The Ticklish Subject
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| year=1999
| publisher=Verso
| location=London
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*{{cite book
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| title=The Fragile Absolute
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| year=2000
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*{{cite book
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| title=Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?
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| year=2001
| publisher=Verso
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*{{cite book
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| title=The Fright of Real Tears: Kryzystof Kieslowski
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| year=2001
| publisher=BFI
| location=London
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*{{cite book
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| title=On Belief
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| year=2001
| publisher=Routledge
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*{{cite book
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| title=Opera's Second Death
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| year=2001
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*{{cite book
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| title=Welcome to the Desert of the Real
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*{{cite book
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| title=Revolution at the Gates: Žižek on Lenin, the 1917 Writings
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| year=2002
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*{{cite book
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| title=Organs Without Bodies
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| year=2003
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*{{cite book
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| title=The Puppet and the Dwarf
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| year=2003
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| location=Cambridge, MA
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*{{cite book
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| title=Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle
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| year=2004
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*{{cite book
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| title=Interrogating the Real
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| year=2005
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*{{cite book
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| title=The Universal Exception
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| year=2006
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*{{cite book
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| title=Neighbors and Other Monsters (in ''The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology'')
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| year=2006
| publisher=University of Chicago Press
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*{{cite book
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| first=Slavoj
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| title=The Parallax View
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| year=2006
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==External links==
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* [http://www.iep.utm.edu/z/zizek.htm Žižek entry in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
* [http://lacan.com/bibliographyzi.htm Slavoj Žižek's Complete Bibliography in English]
* [http://www.lacan.com/frameziz.htm Slavoj Žižek and Jacques Lacan]
* [http://www.egs.edu/faculty/slavojzizek.html Slavoj Žižek's faculty page at European Graduate School]
* [http://www.lacan.com/jacktilton.htm "The Desert of the Real": video - New York 11/14/2001]
* [http://www.lacan.com/mabreu.htm "Love Without Mercy": video - New York 03/10/2003]
* [http://www.documenta12.de/data/german/platform1/video.html "Documenta": video]
* [http://othervoices.org/2.2/index.html Lacan's Plea for Fundamentalism], video lecture
* [http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=zizek&mode=synopsis Žižek!] Astra Taylor's 2005 documentary
=== Articles by Žižek ===
==== Lacan.com ====
The academic website [http://www.lacan.com/lacan1.htm Lacan.com] contains a large number of web-accessible versions Žižek's articles, including:
*[http://lacan.com/zizantinomies.htm The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason]
*[http://lacan.com/symptom6_articles/zizek.html The Act and its Vicissitudes]
*[http://lacan.com/kosovo.htm Against the Double Blackmail]
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-are.htm Are We in a War? Do We Have an Enemy?]
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-capitalism.htm Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism: On the Political Tragedy of Vaclav Havel]
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-mental.htm Bring me My Philips Mental Jacket]
*[http://lacan.com/freedom.htm Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today?]
*[http://lacan.com/milner.htm Christians, Jews and Other Criminals: A Critique of Jean-Claude Milner]
*[http://lacan.com/zizekopera1.htm La Clemenza di Tito, or the Ridiculously-Obscene Excess of Mercy]
*[http://lacan.com/zizekdecaf.htm A Cup of Decaf Reality]
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-love.htm Death's Merciless Love]
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-desire.htm Desire: Drive = Truth: Knowledge]
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-leftist.htm For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy]
*[http://www.lacan.com/zizhegche.htm German Idealism and Christianity – The Symptom]
*[http://lacan.com/zizarchives.htm A Glance into the Archives of Islam]
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-empire.htm Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century?]
*[http://lacan.com/mueller.htm Heiner Mueller out of Joint]
*[http://lacan.com/zizekmankell.htm Henning Mankell, the Artist of the Parallax View]
*[http://lacan.com/hsacer.htm Homo Sacer as the Object of the Discourse of the University]
*[http://lacan.com/zizhooray.htm Hooray for Bush!]
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-human.htm Human Rights and Its Discontents]
*[http://lacan.com/zizekloaded.htm Ideology Reloaded]
*[http://lacan.com/zizekkettle.htm The Iraqi Borrowed Kettle]
*[http://lacan.com/iraq1.htm The Iraqi MacGuffin]
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-iraq2.htm Iraq's False Promises]
*[http://lacan.com/iraq.htm The Iraq War: Where is the True Danger?]
*[http://www.lacan.com/hitch.html Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film]
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-deep.htm Knee-Deep]
*[http://lacan.com/zizekwaterloo.htm The Liberal Waterloo (Or, Finally Some Good News from Washington!)]
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-matrix.htm The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion]
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-nato.htm NATO, the Left Hand of God]
*[http://lacan.com/nosex.htm No Sex, Please, We're Post-Human]
*[http://lacan.com/zizmultitude.htm Objet a as Inherent Limit to Capitalism: on Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri]
*[http://lacan.com/zizviol.htm The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence and Symptoms]
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-self.htm On Being Tolerant and Smug]
*[http://lacan.com/coalition.htm Over the Rainbow Coalition!]
*[http://lacan.com/passionf.htm Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief]
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-plea.htm A Plea for Leninist Intolerance]
*[http://www.lacan.com/zizekpope.htm The Pope's Failures]
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-badiou.htm Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou]
*[http://lacan.com/replenin.htm Repeating Lenin]
*[http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2122 Revenge of Global Finance]
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-seize.htm Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy]
*[http://lacan.com/zizekopera2.htm The Sex of Orpheus]
*''Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France & Related Matters:''
*#[http://lacan.com/zizfrance.htm Violence, Irrational and Rational]
*#[http://lacan.com/zizfrance1.htm The Terrorist Resentment]
*#[http://lacan.com/zizfrance2.htm Escape from New Orleans]
*#[http://lacan.com/zizfrance3.htm The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape Revisited]
*#[http://lacan.com/zizfrance4.htm C'est mon choix... to Burn Cars]
*#[http://lacan.com/zizfrance5.htm Class Struggles in France, Again]
*[http://lacan.com/zizneworleans.htm The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape]
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-today.htm Today Iraq, Tomorrow... Democracy]
*[http://lacan.com/toomuch.htm Too Much Democracy?]
*[http://lacan.com/zizekopera.htm Walhalla's Frigid Joys]
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-welcome.htm Welcome to the Desert of the Real (first version)]
*[http://lacan.com/zizeklenin34.htm What Is To be Done (with Lenin)?]
*[http://lacan.com/zizekrumsfeld.htm What Rumsfeld Doesn't Know That He Knows About Abu Ghraib]
*''What's Wrong with Fundamentalism?''
*#[http://lacan.com/zizpassion.htm With or Without Passion]
*#[http://lacan.com/zizunder.htm Move the Underground]
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-suicide When the Party Commits Suicide]
*[http://lacan.com/zizekleni.htm Will She Ever Die?]
*[http://lacan.com/zizeklaugh.htm Will You Laugh for Me, Please]
*[http://lacan.com/zizwoman.htm Woman is one of the Names-of-the-Father]
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-youmay.htm You May]
==== In These Times ====
The magazine of political commentary and investigative journalism, [[In These Times]], also contains web-accessible articles by Žižek:
*[http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2169/ Thanks, But We’ll Do It Ourselves ]
*[http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1090/ The Free World ... of Slums ]
*[http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2280/ Give Iranian Nukes a Chance ]
==== Miscellaneous ====
*[http://www.psychomedia.it/jep/number5/zizek.htm The Big Other Doesn't Exist]
*[http://www.16beavergroup.org/mtarchive/archives/001084.php Between Two Deaths: The Culture of Torture]
*[http://faculty.smu.edu/nschwart/seminar/Zizek.htm The Truth Arises from Misrecognition ]
*[http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR23603.shtml Why We All Love to Hate Haider ]
*[http://adbusters.org/the_magazine/57/Where_to_look_for_a_revolutionary_potential.html Where to Look for a Revolutionary Potential? ]
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1498989,00.html The Constitution is Dead. Long Live Proper Politics ]
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1417982,00.html The Empty Wheelbarrow ]
*[http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj95/zizek.htm A Cyberspace Lenin: Why Not? ]
*[http://www.egs.edu/faculty/zizek/zizek-ethnic-danse-macabre.html Ethnic Dance Macabre ]
*[http://www.egs.edu/faculty/zizek/zizek-superego-and-the-act-1999.html The Superego and the Act ]
*[http://www.egs.edu/faculty/zizek/zizek-the-interpassive-subject.html Interpassivity ]
*[http://www.plexus.org/lacink/lacink11/zizek.html From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power ]
*[http://www.zizek.com/zize-com.htm Ideology Today ]
*[http://www.cosmos.ne.jp/~miyagawa/nagocnet/data/zizek.html#article01 Welcome to the Desert of the Real (third version)]
*[http://www.arthist.lu.se/discontinuities/texts/zizek.htm Laugh Yourself to Death! The New Wave of Holocaust Comedies ]
*[http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n16/print/zize01_.html Lenin Shot at Finland Station ]
*[http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n06/print/zize01_.html The Two Totalitarianisms ]
*[http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ot/zizek.htm The Leninist Freedom ]
*[http://www.mscp.org.au/forum/zizek01_over_the_rainbow.htm Somewhere over the Rainbow! ]
*[http://www.artmargins.com/content/feature/zizek1.html The Thing from Inner Space ]
==References==
This article is based on [[:de:Slavoj Žižek|the article about Slavoj Žižek]] in the German Wikipedia.
[[Category:20th century philosophers|Zizek, Slavoj]]
