Slavoj Žižek





Slavoj Žižek

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March 21, 1949 in Ljubljana, Slovenia

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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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Friday July 1st, 2011, Cadogan Hall


Doors open at 6.30pm. The talk will begin at 7.00pm and finish at 8.30pm.


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Violence: Six Sideways Refl...
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First as Tragedy, Then as F...
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Welcome to the Desert of th...
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The Parallax View
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Looking Awry: An Introducti...
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How to Read Lacan
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The Puppet and the Dwarf: T...
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Living In The End Times
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In Defense of Lost Causes
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“Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.”
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