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Slavoj Žižek
Born · March 21, 1949 (76 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Bio
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.
Unexpurgated: Slavoj Zizek
himself
0.0
2024
Alice, Through the Looking
Self
0.0
2021
An Apology for Modernity
Himself
0.0
2021
Great Minds
Self · (5 episodes)
5.2
2021
Bliss
Slavoj Žižek
5.5
2021
Antigone, How Dare We!
Himself
5.5
2020
Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
Self
10.0
2019
Jordan Peterson & Slavoj Žižek - Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
Self
3.5
2019
Slavoj Žižek Birthday Special: Politics, Philosophy, and Hardcore Pornography
Himself
0.0
2019
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
Self
0.0
2018
Risk
Self
6.7
2017
The New Man
Self
0.0
2016
The Swap
Self (voice)
0.0
2016
Houston, We Have a Problem!
Self
7.7
2016
Hyperstition
Self
0.0
2015
There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People
Himself (archive footage)
0.0
2013
Balkan Spirit
Self - Philosopher
6.6
2013
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Self - Host / Philosopher
7.3
2012
Catastroika
Self
6.6
2012
Marx Reloaded
Self
6.3
2011
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
Self - Author - 'In Defence of Lost Causes'
6.5
2009
Alien, Marx & Co. - Zizek Portrait
Self
5.0
2009
Hauser and Žižek: Theoreticians of Postmarxist Philosophy
0.0
2008
Examined Life
Self
6.4
2008
Q&A
Self - Panellist · (1 episode)
3.8
2008
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Self - Host / Philosopher
7.3
2006
Žižek!
Self
6.7
2005
Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
Self
6.5
2004
Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin
Himself
6.4
1997
The Old and the New
Himself
0.0
1997
Predictions of Fire
Self
6.5
1996
Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself
Self
6.6
1996
Laibach – A Film from Slovenia
Himself
7.0
1993
Bravo: Laibach in Film
Himself
0.0
1993