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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instanceOf cultural critic
human
philosopher
political theorist
birthDate 1949-03-21
birthPlace Ljubljana
countryOfCitizenship Slovenia
doctoralAdvisor Božidar Debenjak
educatedAt University of Ljubljana
employer Birkbeck, University of London
surface form: Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities

University of Ljubljana
familyName Slavoj Žižek self-linksurface differs
surface form: Žižek
fieldOfWork cultural studies
philosophy
political theory
psychoanalysis
givenName Slavoj
hasGender male
influencedBy G. W. F. Hegel
Jacques Lacan
Karl Marx
Louis Althusser
Martin Heidegger
Sigmund Freud
languageOfWorkOrName English
Slovene
mainInterest film theory
ideology critique
political ideology
subjectivity
theology
movement Lacanian psychoanalysis
Marxism
continental philosophy
name Slavoj Žižek self-link
nativeLanguage Slovene
notableIdea Lacanian reading of Hegel
analysis of contemporary capitalism through psychoanalysis
critique of liberal democracy
parallax view concept in philosophy
reinterpretation of ideology as unconscious fantasy
notableWork Absolute Recoil
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
surface form: Hegelianism

dialectical materialism
psychoanalytic theory
positionHeld international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities

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Western Marxism associatedWith Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek familyName Slavoj Žižek self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Žižek
Ages of the World influenced Slavoj Žižek
phenomenology of spirit influenced Slavoj Žižek
subject surface form: Phenomenology of Spirit
Wissenschaft der Logik influenced Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek name Slavoj Žižek self-link