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[[Image:SlavojZizekOxfordAmnestyLecture20040128 KaihsuTai adjustedHephaestosZizek2.jpg|right|frame|Slavoj Žižek]] ==Life and work==Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian sociologist, philosopher and cultural critic.  Slavoj Žižek was born on March 21, 1949 in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia).  He grew up in the comparative cultural freedom of the former Yugoslavia’s self managing socialism.Here – significantly for his work – Zizek was exposed to the films, popular culture and theory of the noncommunist West.

Žižek is well known for his use He received a Bachelor of Arts (philosophy and sociology, 1971), Master of Arts (philosophy, 1975), and Doctor of Arts (philosophy, 1981) at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana.  He received a D.A. in Philosophy in Ljubljana in 1981 and studied Psychoanalysis at the works University of Paris.  He studied in Paris under Jacques Lacan AlainMiller, Lacan’s son-in -law, from 1981 to 1985. He received a new Doctor of Arts (psychoanalysis, 1985) at the Universite Paris-VIII. In this period, Zizek wrote a second dissertation, a Lacanian reading of popular cultureHegel, Marx and Kripke. In addition to Paris besides being sponsored for his work as an interpreter thesis by François Regnault and Jacques-Alain Miller, he went into analysis with the latter for several years. Since 1979, Zizek has been a researcher at the University of Lacanian psychoanalysisLjubljana (Institute for Sociology and Philosophy, from 1992 Institute for Social Sciences, Faculty for Social Sciences).   In the late 1980s, Zizek returned to Slovenia where he wrote newspaper columns for the Slovenian weekly “Mladina”, and cofounded the Slovenian Liberal Democratic Party.In 1990, he writes ran for a seat on countless topicsthe fourmember collective Slovenian presidency, such as fundamentalismnarrowly missing office. In 1990 he was a candidate with the party "Liberal Democracy of Slovenia" for president of the Republic of Slovenia.Politically active in the alternative movement in Slovenia during the 80s; candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Slovenia in the first multi-party elections in 1990. Ambassador of Science of the Republic of Slovenia (1991).      Zizek was a visiting professor at the Department of Psychoanalysis, Universite Paris-VIII in 1982-3 and 1985-6, at the Centre for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Art, SUNY Buffalo, 1991-2, at the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1992, at the Tulane University, New Orleans, 1993, at the Cardozo Law School, New York, 1994, at the Columbia University, New York, 1995, at the Princeton University (1996), at the New School for Social Research, toleranceNew York, political correctness1997, globalizationat the University of Michigan, subjectivityAnn Arbor, human rights1998, Leninand at the Georgetown University, mythWashington, cyberspace1999.  He is currently a returning faculty member of the European Graduate School.  In the last 20 years Zizek has participated in over 350 international philosophical, postmodernismpsychoanalytical and cultural-criticism symposiums in USA, France, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, Netherland, Island, Austria, multiculturalismAustralia, David LynchSwitzerland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Spain, Brasil, Mexico, Israel, Romania, Hungary and Japan.  He is the founder and president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Ljubljana. Editor of the following book series: Analecta (in Slovene), Wo es war (in German), Wo es war (with Verso) and Alfred HitchcockSIC (with Duke UP) in English.

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 Zizek’s first published book in English The Sublime Object of Chicago, Columbia, Princeton, New School for Social Research, New York, the University of Minnesota and the University of Michigan. He is currently the International Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies Ideology appeared in the Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London1989.

RecentlySince then, Žižek caused Zizek has published over a stir in the world of social theory by writing the text of dozen books, edited several collections, published numerous philosophical and political articles, and maintained a catalogue for Abercrombie & Fitch. He is widely regarded as a fiery and colorful lecturer who does not shy away from controversial remarkstireless speaking schedule.