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Acting
Birthdate
1949-03-21 (Age: 77)
Place of Birth
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Slavoj Žižek
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.
Filmography (34)
Unexpurgated: Slavoj Zizek
2024
Alice, Through the Looking
2021
An Apology for Modernity
2021
Bliss
2021
Antigone, How Dare We!
2020
Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
2019
Jordan Peterson & Slavoj Žižek - Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
2019
Slavoj Žižek Birthday Special: Politics, Philosophy, and Hardcore Pornography
2019
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
2018
Risk
2017The New Man
2016
The Swap
2016
Houston, We Have a Problem!
2016
