Slavoj Žižek
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Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic known for his idiosyncratic blend of Hegelian dialectics, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Marxist theory applied to contemporary culture and politics.
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| Žižek | 1 |
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| instanceOf |
cultural critic
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human ⓘ philosopher ⓘ political theorist ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1949-03-21 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Ljubljana ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Slovenia ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Božidar Debenjak ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Ljubljana ⓘ |
| employer |
Birkbeck, University of London
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Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities
University of Ljubljana ⓘ |
| familyName |
Slavoj Žižek
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Žižek
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| fieldOfWork |
cultural studies
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philosophy ⓘ political theory ⓘ psychoanalysis ⓘ |
| givenName | Slavoj ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
G. W. F. Hegel
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Jacques Lacan ⓘ Karl Marx ⓘ Louis Althusser ⓘ Martin Heidegger ⓘ Sigmund Freud ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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Slovene ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
film theory
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ideology critique ⓘ political ideology ⓘ subjectivity ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| movement |
Lacanian psychoanalysis
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Marxism ⓘ continental philosophy ⓘ |
| name | Slavoj Žižek self-link ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Slovene ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
Lacanian reading of Hegel
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analysis of contemporary capitalism through psychoanalysis ⓘ critique of liberal democracy ⓘ parallax view concept in philosophy ⓘ reinterpretation of ideology as unconscious fantasy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Absolute Recoil
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Enjoy Your Symptom! ⓘ Less Than Nothing ⓘ Like a Thief in Broad Daylight ⓘ Living in the End Times ⓘ The Parallax View ⓘ The Sublime Object of Ideology ⓘ The Ticklish Subject ⓘ Welcome to the Desert of the Real ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool |
Hegelian dialectics
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Hegelianism
dialectical materialism ⓘ psychoanalytic theory ⓘ |
| positionHeld | international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities ⓘ |
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Žižek
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Phenomenology of Spirit