Slavoj Zizek:Biography

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Biography

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.