Slavoj Žižek

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Name: Slavoj Žižek
Birth: 21 March 1949 in Ljubljana
Tradition: Psychoanalysis
Interests: Art, Cinema, Politics
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Influences: Hegel, Schelling, Lacan


Slavoj Žižek (March 21, 1949 - ) is a Slovenian sociologist, philosopher, psychoanalyst and cultural critic. Žižek is well-known for his employing Lacanian 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

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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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Articles by Slavoj Žižek

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