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'''Slavoj Žižek''' (born [[March 21]], [[1949]]) is a [[Slovenians|Slovenian]] [[sociologist]], [[philosopher]] and [[cultural critic]].  He was born in [[Ljubljana]], [[Slovenia]] (then part of [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]), and received a [[Doctor of Arts|D.A.]] in Philosophy in Ljubljana and studied [[Psychoanalysis]] at the [[University of Paris]].  In [[1990]] he was a candidate with the party "[[Liberal Democracy of Slovenia]]" for president of the Republic of Slovenia.
 
  
Žižek is well known for his use of the works of [[Jacques Lacan]] in a new reading of [[popular culture]]. In addition to his work as an interpreter of [[Jacques Lacan|Lacanian psychoanalysis]], he writes on countless topics, such as [[fundamentalism]], [[tolerance]], [[political correctness]], [[globalization]], [[subjectivity]], [[human rights]], [[Lenin]], [[myth]], [[cyberspace]], [[Postmodern philosophy|postmodernism]], [[multiculturalism]], [[David Lynch]], and [[Alfred Hitchcock]].
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Slavoj Žižek (born March 21, 1949) is a Slovenian sociologist, philosopher and cultural critic. He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia), and received a D.A. in Philosophy in Ljubljana and studied Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris. In 1990 he was a candidate with the party "Liberal Democracy of Slovenia" for president of the Republic of Slovenia.
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Žižek is well known for his use of the works of Jacques Lacan in a new reading of popular culture. In addition to his work as an interpreter of Lacanian psychoanalysis, he writes on countless topics, such as fundamentalism, tolerance, political correctness, globalization, subjectivity, human rights, Lenin, myth, cyberspace, postmodernism, multiculturalism, David Lynch, and Alfred Hitchcock.  
  
 
==Life and work==
 
==Life and work==
  
Žižek is a professor at the [[European Graduate School]] and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, [[University of Ljubljana]], Slovenia. He has been a visiting professor at the [[University of Chicago]], [[Columbia University|Columbia]], [[Princeton University|Princeton]], [[New School for Social Research]], [[New York City|New York]], the [[University of Minnesota]] and the [[University of Michigan]]. He is currently the International Director of the [[Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities]] at [[Birkbeck College]], University of London.
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Žižek is a professor at the European Graduate School and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, Columbia, Princeton, New School for Social Research, New York, the University of Minnesota and the University of Michigan. He is currently the International Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London.
 
 
Recently, Žižek caused a stir in the world of social theory by writing the text of a catalogue for [[Abercrombie & Fitch]]. He is widely regarded as a fiery and colorful lecturer who does not shy away from controversial remarks.
 
 
 
 
 
  
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Recently, Žižek caused a stir in the world of social theory by writing the text of a catalogue for Abercrombie & Fitch. He is widely regarded as a fiery and colorful lecturer who does not shy away from controversial remarks.
 
== Bibliography ==
 
== Bibliography ==
[[Image:Zizek.jpg|frame|Žižek in San Francisco, [[April 21]], [[2005]].]]
 
*{{cite book
 
| last=Žižek
 
| first=Slavoj
 
| coauthors=
 
| editor=
 
| title=The Sublime Object of Ideology
 
| format=Print
 
| edition=
 
| year=1989
 
| publisher=Verso
 
| location=London
 
| language=English
 
| id=
 
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*{{cite book
 
| last=Žižek
 
| first=Slavoj
 
| coauthors=
 
| editor=[[Ernesto Laclau]]
 
| title=Beyond Discourse Analysis (in ''New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time'')
 
| format=Print
 
| edition=
 
| year=1990
 
| publisher=Verso
 
| location=London
 
| language=English
 
| id=
 
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*{{cite book
 
| last=Žižek
 
| first=Slavoj
 
| coauthors=
 
| editor=
 
| title=For They Know Not What They Do
 
| format=Print
 
| edition=
 
| year=1991
 
| publisher=Verso
 
| location=London
 
| language=English
 
| id=
 
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*{{cite book
 
| last=Žižek
 
| first=Slavoj
 
| coauthors=
 
| editor=
 
| title=Looking Awry
 
| format=Print
 
| edition=
 
| year=1991
 
| publisher=MIT Press
 
| location=Cambridge, MA
 
| language=English
 
| id=
 
| pages=
 
}}
 
*{{cite book
 
| last=Žižek
 
| first=Slavoj
 
| coauthors=
 
| editor=
 
| title=Enjoy Your Symptom!
 
| format=Print
 
| edition=
 
| year=1992
 
| publisher=Routledge
 
| location=London
 
| language=English
 
| id=
 
| pages=
 
}}
 
*{{cite book
 
| last=Žižek
 
| first=Slavoj
 
| coauthors=
 
| editor=
 
| title=Tarrying with the Negative
 
| format=Print
 
| edition=
 
| year=1993
 
| publisher=Duke University Press
 
| location=Durham, NC
 
| language=English
 
| id=
 
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}}
 
*{{cite book
 
| last=Žižek
 
| first=Slavoj
 
| coauthors=
 
| editor=
 
| title=Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan...But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock
 
| format=Print
 
| edition=
 
| year=1993
 
| publisher=Verso
 
| location=London
 
| language=English
 
| id=
 
| pages=
 
}}
 
*{{cite book
 
| last=Žižek
 
| first=Slavoj
 
| coauthors=
 
| editor=
 
| title=The Metastases of Enjoyment
 
| format=Print
 
| edition=
 
| year=1994
 
| publisher=Verso
 
| location=London
 
| language=English
 
| id=
 
| pages=
 
}}
 
*{{cite book
 
| last=Žižek
 
| first=Slavoj
 
| coauthors=
 
| editor=
 
| title=The Indivisible Remainder: Essays on Schelling and Related Matters
 
| format=Print
 
| edition=
 
| year=1996
 
| publisher=Verso
 
| location=London
 
| language=English
 
| id=
 
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}}
 
*{{cite book
 
| last=Žižek
 
| first=Slavoj
 
| coauthors=
 
| editor=
 
| title=The Abyss of Freedom
 
| format=Print
 
| edition=
 
| year=1997
 
| publisher=University of Michigan Press
 
| location=Michigan
 
| language=English
 
| id=
 
| pages=
 
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*{{cite book
 
| last=Žižek
 
| first=Slavoj
 
| coauthors=
 
| editor=
 
| title=The Plague of Fantasies
 
| format=Print
 
| edition=
 
| year=1997
 
| publisher=Verso
 
| location=London
 
| language=English
 
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*{{cite book
 
| last=Žižek
 
| first=Slavoj
 
| coauthors=
 
| editor=
 
| title=The Ticklish Subject
 
| format=Print
 
| edition=
 
| year=1999
 
| publisher=Verso
 
| location=London
 
| language=English
 
| id=
 
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*{{cite book
 
| last=Žižek
 
| first=Slavoj
 
| coauthors=
 
| editor=
 
| title=The Fragile Absolute
 
| format=Print
 
| edition=
 
| year=2000
 
| publisher=Verso
 
| location=London
 
| language=English
 
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*{{cite book
 
| last=Žižek
 
| first=Slavoj
 
| coauthors=
 
| editor=
 
| title=Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?
 
| format=Print
 
| edition=
 
| year=2001
 
| publisher=Verso
 
| location=London
 
| language=English
 
| id=
 
| pages=
 
}}
 
*{{cite book
 
| last=Žižek
 
| first=Slavoj
 
| coauthors=
 
| editor=
 
| title=The Fright of Real Tears: Kryzystof Kieslowski
 
| format=Print
 
| edition=
 
| year=2001
 
| publisher=BFI
 
| location=London
 
| language=English
 
| id=
 
| pages=
 
}}
 
*{{cite book
 
| last=Žižek
 
| first=Slavoj
 
| coauthors=
 
| editor=
 
| title=On Belief
 
| format=Print
 
| edition=
 
| year=2001
 
| publisher=Routledge
 
| location=London
 
| language=English
 
| id=
 
| pages=
 
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*{{cite book
 
| last=Žižek
 
| first=Slavoj
 
| coauthors=
 
| editor=
 
| title=Opera's Second Death
 
| format=Print
 
| edition=
 
| year=2001
 
| publisher=Routledge
 
| location=London
 
| language=English
 
| id=
 
| pages=
 
}}
 
*{{cite book
 
| last=Žižek
 
| first=Slavoj
 
| coauthors=
 
| editor=
 
| title=Welcome to the Desert of the Real
 
| format=Print
 
| edition=
 
| year=2002
 
| publisher=Verso
 
| location=London
 
| language=English
 
| id=
 
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*{{cite book
 
| last=Žižek
 
| first=Slavoj
 
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| editor=
 
| title=Revolution at the Gates: Žižek on Lenin, the 1917 Writings
 
| format=Print
 
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| year=2002
 
| publisher=Verso
 
| location=London
 
| language=English
 
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*{{cite book
 
| last=Žižek
 
| first=Slavoj
 
| coauthors=
 
| editor=
 
| title=Organs Without Bodies
 
| format=Print
 
| edition=
 
| year=2003
 
| publisher=Routledge
 
| location=London
 
| language=English
 
| id=
 
| pages=
 
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*{{cite book
 
| last=Žižek
 
| first=Slavoj
 
| coauthors=
 
| editor=
 
| title=The Puppet and the Dwarf
 
| format=Print
 
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| year=2003
 
| publisher=MIT Press
 
| location=Cambridge, MA
 
| language=English
 
| id=
 
| pages=
 
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*{{cite book
 
| last=Žižek
 
| first=Slavoj
 
| coauthors=
 
| editor=
 
| title=Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle
 
| format=Print
 
| edition=
 
| year=2004
 
| publisher=Verso
 
| location=London
 
| language=English
 
| id=
 
| pages=
 
}}
 
*{{cite book
 
| last=Žižek
 
| first=Slavoj
 
| coauthors=
 
| editor=
 
| title=Interrogating the Real
 
| format=Print
 
| edition=
 
| year=2005
 
| publisher=Continuum Publishing
 
| location=
 
| language=English
 
| id=
 
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*{{cite book
 
| last=Žižek
 
| first=Slavoj
 
| coauthors=
 
| editor=
 
| title=The Universal Exception
 
| format=Print
 
| edition=
 
| year=2006
 
| publisher=Continuum Publishing
 
| location=
 
| language=English
 
| id=
 
| pages=
 
}}
 
*{{cite book
 
| last=Žižek
 
| first=Slavoj
 
| coauthors=
 
| editor=
 
| title=Neighbors and Other Monsters (in ''The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology'')
 
| format=Print
 
| edition=
 
| year=2006
 
| publisher=University of Chicago Press
 
| location=Cambridge, MA
 
| language=English
 
| id=
 
| pages=
 
}}
 
*{{cite book
 
| last=Žižek
 
| first=Slavoj
 
| coauthors=
 
| editor=
 
| title=The Parallax View
 
| format=Print
 
| edition=
 
| year=2006
 
| publisher=MIT Press
 
| location=Cambridge, MA
 
| language=English
 
| id=
 
| pages=
 
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==External links==
 
==External links==
{{wikiquote}}
 
* [http://www.iep.utm.edu/z/zizek.htm Žižek entry in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
 
* [http://lacan.com/bibliographyzi.htm Slavoj Žižek's Complete Bibliography in English]
 
* [http://www.lacan.com/frameziz.htm Slavoj Žižek and Jacques Lacan]
 
* [http://www.egs.edu/faculty/slavojzizek.html Slavoj Žižek's faculty page at European Graduate School]
 
* [http://www.lacan.com/jacktilton.htm "The Desert of the Real": video - New York 11/14/2001]
 
* [http://www.lacan.com/mabreu.htm "Love Without Mercy": video - New York 03/10/2003]
 
* [http://www.documenta12.de/data/german/platform1/video.html "Documenta": video]
 
* [http://othervoices.org/2.2/index.html Lacan's Plea for Fundamentalism], video lecture
 
* [http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=zizek&mode=synopsis Žižek!] Astra Taylor's 2005 documentary
 
  
 
=== Articles by Žižek ===
 
=== Articles by Žižek ===
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==== Lacan.com ====
 
==== Lacan.com ====
  
The academic website [http://www.lacan.com/lacan1.htm Lacan.com] contains a large number of web-accessible versions Žižek's articles, including:
 
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizantinomies.htm The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason]
 
*[http://lacan.com/symptom6_articles/zizek.html The Act and its Vicissitudes]
 
*[http://lacan.com/kosovo.htm Against the Double Blackmail]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-are.htm Are We in a War? Do We Have an Enemy?]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-capitalism.htm Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism: On the Political Tragedy of Vaclav Havel]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-mental.htm Bring me My Philips Mental Jacket]
 
*[http://lacan.com/freedom.htm Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today?]
 
*[http://lacan.com/milner.htm Christians, Jews and Other Criminals: A Critique of Jean-Claude Milner]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizekopera1.htm La Clemenza di Tito, or the Ridiculously-Obscene Excess of Mercy]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizekdecaf.htm A Cup of Decaf Reality]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-love.htm Death's Merciless Love]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-desire.htm Desire: Drive = Truth: Knowledge]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-leftist.htm For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy]
 
*[http://www.lacan.com/zizhegche.htm German Idealism and Christianity – The Symptom]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizarchives.htm A Glance into the Archives of Islam]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-empire.htm Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century?]
 
*[http://lacan.com/mueller.htm Heiner Mueller out of Joint]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizekmankell.htm Henning Mankell, the Artist of the Parallax View]
 
*[http://lacan.com/hsacer.htm Homo Sacer as the Object of the Discourse of the University]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizhooray.htm Hooray for Bush!]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-human.htm Human Rights and Its Discontents]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizekloaded.htm Ideology Reloaded]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizekkettle.htm The Iraqi Borrowed Kettle]
 
*[http://lacan.com/iraq1.htm The Iraqi MacGuffin]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-iraq2.htm Iraq's False Promises]
 
*[http://lacan.com/iraq.htm The Iraq War: Where is the True Danger?]
 
*[http://www.lacan.com/hitch.html Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-deep.htm Knee-Deep]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizekwaterloo.htm The Liberal Waterloo (Or, Finally Some Good News from Washington!)]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-matrix.htm The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-nato.htm NATO, the Left Hand of God]
 
*[http://lacan.com/nosex.htm No Sex, Please, We're Post-Human]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizmultitude.htm Objet a as Inherent Limit to Capitalism: on Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizviol.htm The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence and Symptoms]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-self.htm On Being Tolerant and Smug]
 
*[http://lacan.com/coalition.htm Over the Rainbow Coalition!]
 
*[http://lacan.com/passionf.htm Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-plea.htm A Plea for Leninist Intolerance]
 
*[http://www.lacan.com/zizekpope.htm The Pope's Failures]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-badiou.htm Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou]
 
*[http://lacan.com/replenin.htm Repeating Lenin]
 
*[http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2122 Revenge of Global Finance]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-seize.htm Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizekopera2.htm The Sex of Orpheus]
 
*''Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France & Related Matters:''
 
*#[http://lacan.com/zizfrance.htm Violence, Irrational and Rational]
 
*#[http://lacan.com/zizfrance1.htm The Terrorist Resentment]
 
*#[http://lacan.com/zizfrance2.htm Escape from New Orleans]
 
*#[http://lacan.com/zizfrance3.htm The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape Revisited]
 
*#[http://lacan.com/zizfrance4.htm C'est mon choix... to Burn Cars]
 
*#[http://lacan.com/zizfrance5.htm Class Struggles in France, Again]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizneworleans.htm The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-today.htm Today Iraq, Tomorrow... Democracy]
 
*[http://lacan.com/toomuch.htm Too Much Democracy?]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizekopera.htm Walhalla's Frigid Joys]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-welcome.htm Welcome to the Desert of the Real (first version)]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizeklenin34.htm What Is To be Done (with Lenin)?]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizekrumsfeld.htm What Rumsfeld Doesn't Know That He Knows About Abu Ghraib]
 
*''What's Wrong with Fundamentalism?''
 
*#[http://lacan.com/zizpassion.htm  With or Without Passion]
 
*#[http://lacan.com/zizunder.htm Move the Underground]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-suicide When the Party Commits Suicide]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizekleni.htm Will She Ever Die?]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizeklaugh.htm Will You Laugh for Me, Please]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizwoman.htm Woman is one of the Names-of-the-Father]
 
*[http://lacan.com/zizek-youmay.htm You May]
 
  
 
==== In These Times ====
 
==== In These Times ====
The magazine of political commentary and investigative journalism, [[In These Times]], also contains web-accessible articles by Žižek:
 
  
*[http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2169/ Thanks, But We’ll Do It Ourselves ]
 
*[http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1090/ The Free World ... of Slums ]
 
*[http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2280/ Give Iranian Nukes a Chance ]
 
  
 
==== Miscellaneous ====
 
==== Miscellaneous ====
*[http://www.psychomedia.it/jep/number5/zizek.htm The Big Other Doesn't Exist]
 
 
*[http://www.16beavergroup.org/mtarchive/archives/001084.php Between Two Deaths: The Culture of Torture]
 
 
*[http://faculty.smu.edu/nschwart/seminar/Zizek.htm The Truth Arises from Misrecognition ]
 
 
*[http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR23603.shtml Why We All Love to Hate Haider ]
 
 
*[http://adbusters.org/the_magazine/57/Where_to_look_for_a_revolutionary_potential.html Where to Look for a Revolutionary Potential? ]
 
 
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1498989,00.html The Constitution is Dead. Long Live Proper Politics ]
 
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1417982,00.html The Empty Wheelbarrow ]
 
 
*[http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj95/zizek.htm A Cyberspace Lenin: Why Not? ]
 
 
*[http://www.egs.edu/faculty/zizek/zizek-ethnic-danse-macabre.html Ethnic Dance Macabre ]
 
*[http://www.egs.edu/faculty/zizek/zizek-superego-and-the-act-1999.html The Superego and the Act ]
 
*[http://www.egs.edu/faculty/zizek/zizek-the-interpassive-subject.html Interpassivity ]
 
 
*[http://www.plexus.org/lacink/lacink11/zizek.html From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power ]
 
 
*[http://www.zizek.com/zize-com.htm Ideology Today ]
 
 
*[http://www.cosmos.ne.jp/~miyagawa/nagocnet/data/zizek.html#article01 Welcome to the Desert of the Real  (third version)]
 
*[http://www.arthist.lu.se/discontinuities/texts/zizek.htm Laugh Yourself to Death! The New Wave of Holocaust Comedies ]
 
 
*[http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n16/print/zize01_.html Lenin Shot at Finland Station ]
 
*[http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n06/print/zize01_.html The Two Totalitarianisms ]
 
 
*[http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ot/zizek.htm The Leninist Freedom ]
 
 
*[http://www.mscp.org.au/forum/zizek01_over_the_rainbow.htm Somewhere over the Rainbow! ]
 
 
*[http://www.artmargins.com/content/feature/zizek1.html The Thing from Inner Space ]
 
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
 
This article is based on [[:de:Slavoj Žižek|the article about Slavoj Žižek]] in the German Wikipedia.
 
  
 
[[Category:20th century philosophers|Zizek, Slavoj]]
 
[[Category:20th century philosophers|Zizek, Slavoj]]

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Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek (born March 21, 1949) is a Slovenian sociologist, philosopher and cultural critic. He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia), and received a D.A. in Philosophy in Ljubljana and studied Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris. In 1990 he was a candidate with the party "Liberal Democracy of Slovenia" for president of the Republic of Slovenia.

Žižek is well known for his use of the works of Jacques Lacan in a new reading of popular culture. In addition to his work as an interpreter of Lacanian psychoanalysis, he writes on countless topics, such as fundamentalism, tolerance, political correctness, globalization, subjectivity, human rights, Lenin, myth, cyberspace, postmodernism, multiculturalism, David Lynch, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Life and work

Žižek is a professor at the European Graduate School and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, Columbia, Princeton, New School for Social Research, New York, the University of Minnesota and the University of Michigan. He is currently the International Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Recently, Žižek caused a stir in the world of social theory by writing the text of a catalogue for Abercrombie & Fitch. He is widely regarded as a fiery and colorful lecturer who does not shy away from controversial remarks.

Bibliography

External links

Articles by Žižek

Lacan.com

In These Times

Miscellaneous

References