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Slavoj Zizek
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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.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1949-03-21
- event Death Date Unknown
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 2.8
- info Birth Place Ljubljana, Slovenia
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Slavoj Žižek
6.4
Examined Life
2008-09-05
7.3
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
2006-10-06
6.6
Žižek!
2005-11-18
0
Alice, Through the Looking
2021-11-12
6.5
Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
2004-03-23
6.6
Catastroika
2012-04-26
6.5
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
2009-01-01
6.5
Predictions of Fire
1996-10-02
7.4
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
2012-11-15
0
The Old and the New
1997-01-01
0
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
2018-05-18
0
Bravo: Laibach in Film
1993-01-01
7.8
Houston, We Have a Problem!
2016-05-05
0
There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People
2013-04-25
0
The New Man
2016-11-18
6.7
Risk
2017-05-05
5
Alien, Marx & Co. - Zizek Portrait
2009-01-01
6.6
Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself
1996-01-01
6.6
Balkan Spirit
2013-04-08
6.4
Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin
1997-09-03
3.5
Jordan Peterson & Slavoj Žižek - Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
2019-04-19
6.3
Marx Reloaded
2011-04-11
5.5
Bliss
2021-02-05
7
Laibach – A Film from Slovenia
1993-02-04
0
Hyperstition
2015-07-22
0
The Swap
2016-10-19
5.5
Antigone, How Dare We!
2020-10-30
10
Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
2019-05-15
0
Slavoj Žižek Birthday Special: Politics, Philosophy, and Hardcore Pornography
2019-03-21
0
Hauser and Žižek: Theoreticians of Postmarxist Philosophy
2008-10-24
0
Unexpurgated: Slavoj Zizek
2024-06-27
5.2
Great Minds
2021-08-30
3.8
Q&A
2008-05-22