Slavoj Žižek
Born
March 21, 1949 (76 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Ljubljana, Slovenia
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
Unexpurgated: Slavoj Zizek
himself
2024
Alice, Through the Looking
Self
2021
An Apology for Modernity
Himself
2021
Great Minds
Self · (5 episodes)
2021
Bliss
Slavoj Žižek
2021
Antigone, How Dare We!
Himself
2020
Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
Self
2019
Jordan Peterson & Slavoj Žižek - Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
Self
2019
Slavoj Žižek Birthday Special: Politics, Philosophy, and Hardcore Pornography
Himself
2019
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
Self
2018
Risk
Self
2017
The New Man
Self
2016
The Swap
Self (voice)
2016
Houston, We Have a Problem!
Self
2016
Hyperstition
Self
2015
There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People
Himself (archive footage)
2013
Balkan Spirit
Self - Philosopher
2013
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Self - Host / Philosopher
2012
Catastroika
Self
2012
Marx Reloaded
Self
2011
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
Self - Author - 'In Defence of Lost Causes'
2009
Alien, Marx & Co. - Zizek Portrait
Self
2009
Hauser and Žižek: Theoreticians of Postmarxist Philosophy
2008
Examined Life
Self
2008
Q&A
Self - Panellist · (1 episode)
2008
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Self - Host / Philosopher
2006
Žižek!
Self
2005
Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
Self
2004
Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin
Himself
1997
The Old and the New
Himself
1997
Predictions of Fire
Self
1996
Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself
Self
1996
Laibach – A Film from Slovenia
Himself
1993
Bravo: Laibach in Film
Himself
1993