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  <name><![CDATA[Slavoj Žižek]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[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, 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 &quot;orthodox Lacanian Stalinist&quot;. In an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! he described himself as a &quot;Marxist&quot; and a &quot;Communist.&quot; ]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Gilles Deleuze, F.W.J. Schelling, Georg Hegel, René Descartes, Karl Marx, Louis Althusser]]></influences>    <hometown>Ljubljana</hometown>  <born_at>03/21/1949</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Slavoj Žižek]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.10</average_rating>
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  <published>2001</published>  
  
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  <id>18912</id>
  <title><![CDATA[The Sublime Object of Ideology]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Slavoj Žižek]]></name>
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  <published>1989</published>  
  
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  <id>18910</id>
  <title><![CDATA[The Parallax View]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Slavoj Žižek]]></name>
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  <published>2006</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Violence: Six Sideways Reflections]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Slavoj Žižek]]></name>
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  <published>2008</published>  
  
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  <id>18911</id>
  <title><![CDATA[Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture (October Books)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Slavoj Žižek]]></name>
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  <published>1991</published>  
  
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  <id>18913</id>
  <title><![CDATA[The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Slavoj Žižek]]></name>
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  <published>2003</published>  
  
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  <id>18919</id>
  <title><![CDATA[How to Read Lacan]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Slavoj Žižek]]></name>
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  <published>2006</published>  
  
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  <id>18915</id>
  <title><![CDATA[The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Slavoj Žižek]]></name>
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  <published>2000</published>  
  
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  <id>18922</id>
  <title><![CDATA[The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Slavoj Žižek]]></name>
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  <published>1999</published>  
  
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  <id>243947</id>
  <title><![CDATA[The Plague of Fantasies]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Slavoj Žižek]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.98</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>82</ratings_count>
  <published>1997</published>  
  
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