Slavoj Žižek
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Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher born in 1949 known for his influential work analyzing culture, politics, and ideology through the lens of psychoanalytic theory. His ideas matter because he has shaped contemporary debates about how power operates through media, popular culture, and everyday life, making him one of the most widely discussed intellectuals of the past few decades.
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- 21 March 1949
- Works
- 375
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- Gaze and Voice As Love Objects
- Metastazy nasolody
- "Strah pred pravimi solzami"
- An American Utopia
- Mapping Ideology
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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…
Known for
- Unexpurgated: Slavoj Zizek — himself2024
- Deep Thought — self2023
- Alice, Through the Looking — Self2021
- Bliss — Slavoj Žižek2021
- An Apology for Modernity — Himself2021
- Great Minds — Self2021
- Antigone, How Dare We! — Himself
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Slavoj Žižek (born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian neo-Marxist philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual.
Žižek is a Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, professor of philosophy and psychoanalysis at the European Graduate School and senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana. He was the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London from 2004 until September 2025. He primarily works on continental philosophy (particularly Hegelianism, psychoanalysis and Marxism) and political theory, as well as film criticism and theology.
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1949 births20th-century atheists20th-century non-fiction writers20th-century Slovenian essayists20th-century Slovenian philosophers21st-century atheists21st-century essayists21st-century non-fiction writers21st-century Slovenian philosophers21st-century Slovenian writersAcademics of Birkbeck, University of LondonAcademic staff of European Graduate School