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[[Slavoj Žižek]] (born 21 March 1949) is a [[Slovenia]]n [[sociology|sociologist]], [[philosophy|philosopher]], [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalyst]] and [[cultural criticismcritic]]. Žižek is well-known for his employing [[Lacanian psychoanalysis|cultural criticLacanian psychoanalytic theory]] in his readings of [[popular culture]] (from the [[films]] of [[Alfred Hitchcock]] and [[David Lynch]], to the [[literature]] of [[Kafka]] or [[Shakespeare]]). In addition, he writes on a great range of topics, such as [[fundamentalism]], [[tolerance]], [[multiculturalism]], [[political correctness]], [[globalization]], [[human rights]], [[political subjectivity]], [[cyberspace]], [[post-modernism]], [[Leninism]], etc.
==Biography==
<blockquote>''Main Page: [[Biography of Slavoj Žižek - Biography|Biography]]''</blockquote>
Žižek was born in [[Ljubljana]], [[Slovenia]] (then part of [[Yugoslavia]]).
He received a D.A. in [[philosophy]] from the [[University of Ljubljana]], then studied [[psychoanalysis]] at the [[University of Paris]].
In 1990 he was a presidential candidate for the "[[Liberal Democracy of Slovenia]]" (''Liberalna Demokracija Slovenije'').
Žižek is currently a professor in [[European Graduate School]] and a post-doctoral researcher at the [[Institute of Sociology]] in the University of Ljubljiana.
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