Slavoj Žižek
Born March 21, 1949 (Age: 77)
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Ljubljana, Slovenia
Biography
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.
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.
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Filmography
An Apology for Modernity
2021
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as Himself
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Age: 72
Risk
2017
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as Self
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Age: 68
Hyperstition
2015
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as Self
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Age: 66
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
2009
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as Self - Author - 'In Defence of Lost Causes'
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Age: 60
Alien, Marx & Co. - Zizek Portrait
2009
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as Self
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Age: 59
No Image
Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin
1997
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as Himself
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Age: 48
The Old and the New
1997
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as Himself
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Age: 47
Predictions of Fire
1996
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as Self
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Age: 47
Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself
1996
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as Self
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Age: 46
Laibach – A Film from Slovenia
1993
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as Himself
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Age: 43
Bravo: Laibach in Film
1993
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as Himself
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Age: 43