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[[Slavoj Žižek ]] is a Slovenian [[sociologist]], [[philosopher ]] and [[cultural ]] critic.

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.

Since 1979, Zizek has been a researcher at the [[University ]] of Ljubljana (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]].

Žižek is currently a professor in [[European Graduate School]] and a post-doctoral researcher at the [[Institute of Sociology]] in the University of Ljubljiana.  Politically [[active ]] in the alternative movement in Slovenia during the 80s; 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, New York, 1997, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1998, and at the Georgetown University, Washington, 1999.

In the last 20 years Zizek has participated in over 350 international [[philosophical]], [[psychoanalytical ]] and cultural-criticism symposiums in USA, [[France]], United Kingdom, Ireland, [[Germany]], Belgium, Netherland, Island, [[Austria]], Australia, Switzerland, 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.

The Slovenian philosopher [[Slavoj zizek|Slavoj ZiZek ]] has gained something of a cult following for his many writings.[[Slavoj Zizek]], a philosopher and a ([[Lacanian]]) [[psychoanalyst]], is international director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Birkbeck. The [[Parallax ]] View, his latest attempt to rehabilitate [[dialectical ]] [[materialism]], comes out in April 2006.

Zizek’s first published book in [[English ]] The [[Sublime ]] [[Object ]] of [[Ideology ]] appeared in 1989.Editor of the following book series: Analecta (in Slovene), Wo es war (in [[German]]), Wo es war (with Verso) and SIC (with Duke UP) in English.

Since then, Zizek has published over a dozen books, edited several collections, published numerous philosophical and [[political ]] articles, and maintained a tireless [[speaking ]] schedule.

Žižek was [[born ]] in [[Ljubljana]], [[Slovenia]] (then part of [[Yugoslavia]]).

In 1990 he was a presidential candidate for the "[[Liberal Democracy of Slovenia]]" (''[[Liberalna Demokracija Slovenije]]'').

Žižek has occupied positions at many universities, particularly in the [[United States]], including Columbia, University of Princeton, New for School Social Research and New York, University of Michigan among [[others]].