Slavoj Žižek
Known For
Acting
Born
1949-03-21 in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Biography
A Slovenian continental philosopher and critical theorist working in the traditions of Hegelianism, Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He has made contributions to political theory, film theory, and theoretical psychoanalysis. Žižek is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a professor at the European Graduate School. He has been a visiting professor at, among others, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, London Consortium, Princeton, New York University, The New School, the University of Minnesota, the University of California, Irvine and the University of Michigan. He is currently the International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London and president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Ljubljana. Žižek uses examples from popular culture to explain the theory of Jacques Lacan and uses Lacanian psychoanalysis, Hegelian philosophy and Marxist economic criticism to interpret and speak extensively on immediately current social phenomena.
Most Known For
Newsnight
as Self
Q&A
as Self - Panellist
Great Minds
as Self
Hyperstition
as Self
Žižek!
as Self
Bliss
as Slavoj Žižek
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
as Self - Host / Philosopher
Risk
as Self
Parola (su una data)
Balkan Spirit
as Self - Philosopher
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
as Self
The Possibility of Hope
as Self
Alice, Through the Looking
as Self
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
as Self - Host / Philosopher
Houston, We Have a Problem!
as Self
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
as Self - Author - 'In Defence of Lost Causes'
Examined Life
as Self
The Swap
as Self (voice)
Unexpurgated: Slavoj Zizek
as himself
Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
as Self