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Slavoj Zizek
Birth at
21 March 1949
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Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian culturologist, philosopher, critic, writer and screenwriter. Žižek was born in 1949 in Ljubljana into a middle-class family. His parents were atheists. My father was an economist and my mother was an accountant. He spent his childhood in another city, and returned to Ljubljana as a teenager. He studied at the prestigious Bezigard High School and then entered the University of Ljubljana, where he studied psychoanalysis.
Slavoj Žižek is a researcher at the Institute of
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Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian culturologist, philosopher, critic, writer and screenwriter.
Žižek was born in 1949 in Ljubljana into a middle-class family. His parents were atheists. My father was an economist and my mother was an accountant. He spent his childhood in another city, and returned to Ljubljana as a teenager. He studied at the prestigious Bezigard High School and then entered the University of Ljubljana, where he studied psychoanalysis.
Slavoj Žižek is a researcher at the Institute of Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana. He is a professor of philosophy and psychoanalysis at the European University. Žižek wrote a number of works on various topics, including political theory, film theory, works on cultural studies, theology and psychoanalysis.
Slavoj Žižek gained international acclaim in 1989 after the publication of the first book in English, titled The Sublime Object of Ideology. In his work he challenged the Marxist interpretation of ideology and presented his arguments on this topic.
In politics, Žižek advocates communism as the only alternative to modern institutions of government. He is a political radical and a critic of neoliberalism. He wrote several political programs according to which society can either return to the program of socialism or take advantage of the alternative offered by contemporaries.
Slavoj Žižek wrote such works as Kant and the Garden: The Ideal Couple, Notes on Stalin’s Modernization, and Iraq. The story about the kettle, “On violence”, “The art of the ridiculous sublime”. In 2012, he published a new work called “The Year of the Impossible”. The art of dreaming is dangerous.
Some call Slavoj Žižek “Elvis of the theory of culture.” In 2012, he was included in the list of “Top 100 world thinkers” by Foreign Policy.