Slavoj Žižek
Acting
Born: 1949-03-21 in 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.
Known For
Newsnight
Self
Q&A
Self - Panellist
Great Minds
Self
Bliss
Slavoj Žižek
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Self - Host / Philosopher
Parola (su una data)
Die Macht des Rings
Self - philosopher & cultural critic
Žižek!
Self
Hyperstition
Self
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Self - Host / Philosopher
The Pervert's Guide to Utopias
Houston, We Have a Problem!
Self
Balkan Spirit
Self - Philosopher
Risk
Self
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
Self - Author - 'In Defence of Lost Causes'
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
Self
Examined Life
Self
The Title Was Shot
Self (archive footage) (voice)
Alice, Through the Looking
Self
The Possibility of Hope
Self
The New Man
Self
Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself
Self
Marx Reloaded
Self
Unexpurgated: Slavoj Zizek
himself
Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
Self
Catastroika
Self
The Swap
Self (voice)
Laibach – A Film from Slovenia
Himself
Jordan Peterson & Slavoj Žižek - Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
Self
Predictions of Fire
Self
Antigone, How Dare We!
Himself
Alien, Marx & Co. - Zizek Portrait
Self
Slavoj Žižek Birthday Special: Politics, Philosophy, and Hardcore Pornography
Himself
Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
Self
Hauser and Žižek: Theoreticians of Postmarxist Philosophy
An Apology for Modernity
Himself
Bravo: Laibach in Film
Himself