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Slavoj Žižek

Psychologist / Cultural Critic / Politician / Actor / Screenwriter | * 03/21/1949 (75) | Ljubljana, Republic of Slovenia
Slavoj Žižek ( SLAH-voy ZHEE-zhek, Slovene: [ˈslaʋɔj ˈʒiʒɛk]; born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. He is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana's Department of Philosophy. He primarily works on continental philosophy (particularly Hegelianism, psychoanalysis and Marxism) and political theory, as well as film criticism and theology. Žižek is the most famous associate of the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis, a group of Slovenian academics working on German idealism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, ideology critique, and media criticism. His breakthrough work was 1989's The Sublime Object of Ideology, his first book in English, which was decisive in the introduction of the Ljubljana School's thought to English-speaking audiences. He has written over 50 books in multiple languages and speaks Slovene, Serbo-Croatian, English, German, and French. The idiosyncratic style of his public appearances, frequent magazine op-eds, and academic works, characterised by the use of obscene jokes and pop cultural examples, as well as politically incorrect provocations, have gained ... ()
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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.

Most frequent genres for this person: Documentaries | Comedies | Music

Known for these Movies & Shows

Awards & Nominations for Slavoj Žižek

Ambassador of Science of The Republic of Slovenia Gold Medal of The Círculo De Bellas Artes
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Movies with Slavoj Žižek as Actor(23)

as himself2021 Bliss
as himself2020 Antigone, How Dare We!
as himself2017 Risk
as himself2016 The New Man
as himself2015 Hyperstition
as Self (archive footage)2013 There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People
as Self - Philosopher2013 Balkan Spirit
as himself2012 Catastroika
as Self - Host / Philosopher2012 The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
as himself2011 Marx Reloaded
as himself2008 Examined Life
as Self - Host / Philosopher2006 The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
as himself2005 Žižek!
as himself1996 Predictions of Fire

TV Shows/Series with Slavoj Žižek as Actor(1)

as Self - Panellist2008 Q&A

Movies with Slavoj Žižek as Crew(5)

Writing/Theatre Play2020 Antigone, How Dare We!
Writing/Original Concept2018 Turn On

Additional Information

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Full Name: Slavoj Žižek
Citizenship: Slovenia
Born: Monday, 03/21 1949 (March) in Ljubljana, Republic of Slovenia (current age: 75 years + 7 days)
Zodiac sign: Aries (Chinese zodiac sign: Ox)
Languages: German (DE), English (EN), French (FR), Serbo-Croatian (SH), Slovenian (SL)
Educated at: Bežigrad Grammar School, University of Ljubljana, Paris 8 University
Employer: European Graduate School, Birkbeck, University of London, University of Ljubljana
Member of: Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Spouses (current/former): Renata Salecl, Jela Krečič
Influenced by/Role models: Louis Althusser, Alain Badiou, G. K. Chesterton, Božidar Debenjak, Sigmund Freud, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Fredric Jameson, Jacques Lacan, Ernesto Laclau, Vladimir Lenin, Karl Marx, Maximilien Robespierre, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Søren Kierkegaard, Mao Zedong, Jacques-Alain Miller, François Regnault
Other names for Slavoj Žižek (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Slavoj Zizek"
Slavoj Žižek frequently works together with these people:
Sophie Fiennes (8x, Crew)
Astra Taylor (6x, Crew)
Laura Poitras (6x, Crew)
Josh Appignanesi (6x, Crew)
Devorah Baum (5x, Crew)
Jani Sever (4x, Crew)
Martin Rosenbaum (3x, Crew)
Remko Schnorr (3x, Crew)
Jason Barker (3x, Crew)
Boris Jankovec (3x, Crew)
Stan Grant (2x, Actor)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:286733, Added: 08/10/2018, Last updated: 03/24/2024