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Slavoj Žižek

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.

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 in San Francisco, April 21, 2005.

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.