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| region = Western Philosophy
| era = [[20th-century philosophy]], [[21st-century philosophy]]
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| name = Slavoj Žižek
| birth = {{birth date and age|1949|3|21}} <br /> {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Ljubljana]], [[Slovenia]], then [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]
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| school_tradition = [[Postmodern philosophy]], [[post-Marxism]]
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| influences = [[René Descartes]], [[Georg Hegel]], [[Jacques Lacan]], [[Karl Marx]]
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Žižek is well-known for his employing [[Lacanian psychoanalysis|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.
