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Slavoj Žižek


Born
in Ljubljana, Slovenia
March 21, 1949

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Philosophy, Social Sciences, History

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Georg Hegel, Jacques Lacan, G.K. Chesterton, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, ...more


Slavoj Žižek is a Slovene sociologist, philosopher, and cultural critic.

He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of SFR Yugoslavia). He received a Doctor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Ljubljana and studied psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII with Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault. In 1990 he was a candidate with the party Liberal Democracy of Slovenia for Presidency of the Republic of Slovenia (an auxiliary institution, abolished in 1992).

Since 2005, Žižek has been a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Žižek is well known for his use of the works of 20th century French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan in a new reading of popular culture. He writes on many topics including the Iraq War, f ...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 70,824 ratings · 6,663 reviews · 632 distinct works • Similar authors
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Welcome to the Desert of th...
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Against the Double Blackmai...
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Living in the End Times
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Looking Awry: An Introducti...
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“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.”
― Slavoj Žižek
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“We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates
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“The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other”
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