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Slavoj Žižek

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Born: March 20 1949

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

He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia . 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 .

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, fundamentalism, capitalism, tolerance, political correctness, globalization, subjectivity, human rights, Lenin, myth, cyberspace, postmodernism, multiculturalism, post-marxism, David Lynch, and Alfred Hitchcock.

In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País he jokingly described himself as an "orthodox Lacanian Stalinist". In an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! he described himself as a "Marxist" and a "Communist."

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Books from Slavoj Žižek

The Sublime Object of Ideology

First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

Violence: Six Sideways Reflections

How to Read Lacan

Pandemic! COVID-19 Shakes the World

Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

Living in the End Times

Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture

The Parallax View

Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours

Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left

The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why Is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?

The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity

On Practice and Contradiction

Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out

The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously

Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky

The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway

Virtue and Terror

Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology