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==Life and work==
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Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian sociologist, philosopher and cultural critic.
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Slavoj Žižek was born on March 21, 1949 in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia).
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He grew up in the comparative cultural freedom of the former Yugoslavia’s self managing socialism.
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Here – significantly for his work – Zizek was exposed to the films, popular culture and theory of the noncommunist West.
  
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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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.
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He received a D.A. in Philosophy in Ljubljana in 1981 and studied Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris.
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He studied in Paris under Jacques AlainMiller, Lacan’s son-in-law, from 1981 to 1985.  He received a Doctor of Arts (psychoanalysis, 1985) at the Universite Paris-VIII.
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In this period, Zizek wrote a second dissertation, a Lacanian reading of Hegel, Marx and Kripke. In Paris besides being sponsored for his thesis by François Regnault and Jacques-Alain Miller, he went into analysis with the latter for several years.
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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).
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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.
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In 1990, he ran for a seat on the fourmember collective Slovenian presidency, narrowly missing office.
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In 1990 he was a candidate with the party "Liberal Democracy of Slovenia" for president of the Republic of Slovenia.
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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).
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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.
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He is currently  a returning faculty member of the European Graduate School.
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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.
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He is the founder and president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Ljubljana.
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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.  
  
==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.
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Zizek’s first published book in English The Sublime Object of Ideology appeared in 1989.  
  
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.  
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Since then, Zizek has published over a dozen books, edited several collections, published numerous philosophical and political articles, and maintained a tireless speaking schedule.  
 
== Bibliography ==
 
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Revision as of 10:44, 25 April 2006

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.


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 University of Paris.

He studied in Paris under Jacques AlainMiller, Lacan’s son-in-law, from 1981 to 1985. He received a Doctor of Arts (psychoanalysis, 1985) at the Universite Paris-VIII.

In this period, Zizek wrote a second dissertation, a Lacanian reading of Hegel, Marx and Kripke. In Paris besides being sponsored for his 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 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. In 1990, he ran for a seat on the fourmember collective Slovenian presidency, narrowly 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, New York, 1997, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1998, and at the Georgetown University, Washington, 1999.

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, 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.

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.


Zizek’s first published book in English The Sublime Object of Ideology appeared in 1989.

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

Bibliography

External links

Articles by Žižek

Lacan.com

In These Times

Miscellaneous

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