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== Bibliography == | == Bibliography == |
Revision as of 09:18, 25 April 2006
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 Lacanian psychoanalysis, he writes on countless topics, such as fundamentalism, tolerance, political correctness, globalization, subjectivity, human rights, Lenin, myth, cyberspace, postmodernism, multiculturalism, David Lynch, and Alfred Hitchcock.
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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, 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 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.
Bibliography
- Žižek, Slavoj (1989). The Sublime Object of Ideology (Print) (in English), London: Verso.
- Žižek, Slavoj (1990). Ernesto Laclau Beyond Discourse Analysis (in New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time) (Print) (in English), London: Verso.
- Žižek, Slavoj (1991). For They Know Not What They Do (Print) (in English), London: Verso.
- Žižek, Slavoj (1991). Looking Awry (Print) (in English), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Žižek, Slavoj (1992). Enjoy Your Symptom! (Print) (in English), London: Routledge.
- Žižek, Slavoj (1993). Tarrying with the Negative (Print) (in English), Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
- Žižek, Slavoj (1993). Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan...But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock (Print) (in English), London: Verso.
- Žižek, Slavoj (1994). The Metastases of Enjoyment (Print) (in English), London: Verso.
- Žižek, Slavoj (1996). The Indivisible Remainder: Essays on Schelling and Related Matters (Print) (in English), London: Verso.
- Žižek, Slavoj (1997). The Abyss of Freedom (Print) (in English), Michigan: University of Michigan Press.
- Žižek, Slavoj (1997). The Plague of Fantasies (Print) (in English), London: Verso.
- Žižek, Slavoj (1999). The Ticklish Subject (Print) (in English), London: Verso.
- Žižek, Slavoj (2000). The Fragile Absolute (Print) (in English), London: Verso.
- Žižek, Slavoj (2001). Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? (Print) (in English), London: Verso.
- Žižek, Slavoj (2001). The Fright of Real Tears: Kryzystof Kieslowski (Print) (in English), London: BFI.
- Žižek, Slavoj (2001). On Belief (Print) (in English), London: Routledge.
- Žižek, Slavoj (2001). Opera's Second Death (Print) (in English), London: Routledge.
- Žižek, Slavoj (2002). Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Print) (in English), London: Verso.
- Žižek, Slavoj (2002). Revolution at the Gates: Žižek on Lenin, the 1917 Writings (Print) (in English), London: Verso.
- Žižek, Slavoj (2003). Organs Without Bodies (Print) (in English), London: Routledge.
- Žižek, Slavoj (2003). The Puppet and the Dwarf (Print) (in English), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Žižek, Slavoj (2004). Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle (Print) (in English), London: Verso.
- Žižek, Slavoj (2005). Interrogating the Real (Print) (in English), Continuum Publishing.
- Žižek, Slavoj (2006). The Universal Exception (Print) (in English), Continuum Publishing.
- Žižek, Slavoj (2006). Neighbors and Other Monsters (in The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology) (Print) (in English), Cambridge, MA: University of Chicago Press.
- Žižek, Slavoj (2006). The Parallax View (Print) (in English), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
External links
- Žižek entry in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Slavoj Žižek's Complete Bibliography in English
- Slavoj Žižek and Jacques Lacan
- Slavoj Žižek's faculty page at European Graduate School
- "The Desert of the Real": video - New York 11/14/2001
- "Love Without Mercy": video - New York 03/10/2003
- "Documenta": video
- Lacan's Plea for Fundamentalism, video lecture
- Žižek! Astra Taylor's 2005 documentary
Articles by Žižek
Lacan.com
The academic website Lacan.com contains a large number of web-accessible versions Žižek's articles, including:
- The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason
- The Act and its Vicissitudes
- Against the Double Blackmail
- Are We in a War? Do We Have an Enemy?
- Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism: On the Political Tragedy of Vaclav Havel
- Bring me My Philips Mental Jacket
- Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today?
- Christians, Jews and Other Criminals: A Critique of Jean-Claude Milner
- La Clemenza di Tito, or the Ridiculously-Obscene Excess of Mercy
- A Cup of Decaf Reality
- Death's Merciless Love
- Desire: Drive = Truth: Knowledge
- For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
- German Idealism and Christianity – The Symptom
- A Glance into the Archives of Islam
- Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century?
- Heiner Mueller out of Joint
- Henning Mankell, the Artist of the Parallax View
- Homo Sacer as the Object of the Discourse of the University
- Hooray for Bush!
- Human Rights and Its Discontents
- Ideology Reloaded
- The Iraqi Borrowed Kettle
- The Iraqi MacGuffin
- Iraq's False Promises
- The Iraq War: Where is the True Danger?
- Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film
- Knee-Deep
- The Liberal Waterloo (Or, Finally Some Good News from Washington!)
- The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
- NATO, the Left Hand of God
- No Sex, Please, We're Post-Human
- Objet a as Inherent Limit to Capitalism: on Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
- The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence and Symptoms
- On Being Tolerant and Smug
- Over the Rainbow Coalition!
- Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
- A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
- The Pope's Failures
- Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
- Repeating Lenin
- Revenge of Global Finance
- Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
- The Sex of Orpheus
- Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France & Related Matters:
- The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape
- Today Iraq, Tomorrow... Democracy
- Too Much Democracy?
- Walhalla's Frigid Joys
- Welcome to the Desert of the Real (first version)
- What Is To be Done (with Lenin)?
- What Rumsfeld Doesn't Know That He Knows About Abu Ghraib
- What's Wrong with Fundamentalism?
- When the Party Commits Suicide
- Will She Ever Die?
- Will You Laugh for Me, Please
- Woman is one of the Names-of-the-Father
- You May
In These Times
The magazine of political commentary and investigative journalism, In These Times, also contains web-accessible articles by Žižek:
Miscellaneous
- Welcome to the Desert of the Real (third version)
- Laugh Yourself to Death! The New Wave of Holocaust Comedies
References
This article is based on the article about Slavoj Žižek in the German Wikipedia.