Slavoj Zizek

生年: March 21, 1949 – Ljubljana, People's Republic of Slovenia, Yugoslavia

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural critic, and public intellectual whose work spans psychoanalysis, political theory, film, and ideology critique. Best known for The Sublime Object of Ideology and The Parallax View, he has written more than 50 books and is among the most internationally visible contemporary continental thinkers.

経歴と著者の歩み

Born in Ljubljana on March 21, 1949, and educated in socialist Yugoslavia, Slavoj Žižek came of age inside a society whose official emancipatory ideals often collided with lived contradiction. He studied philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, earning bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees there, before deepening his turn toward Lacanian psychoanalysis at Paris VIII, where he completed a second doctorate in the mid-1980s. During the 1980s he also became active in Slovenia’s democratic opposition, writing for Mladina and helping shape the language through which many student activists understood ideology, culture, and politics. A decisive early turning point came in 1990, when he ran in Slovenia’s first democratic elections and narrowly missed a place in the country’s collective presidency. ((https://www.britannica.com/biography/Slavoj-Zizek))

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Concrete people? No, 99% are boring idiots
-Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots
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First I tell jokes, then I'm serious
-Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots
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We are all basically evil, egotistical, disgusting
-We are all basically evil, egotistical, disgusting
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Listen, we are never spontaneous
-Synthetic Sex and 'Being Yourself'
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But the cause of desire in the sense of what makes you fall in love is always a sign of imperfection
-Synthetic Sex and 'Being Yourself'
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Happiness is, for me, an unethical category
-Why be happy when you could be interesting?
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We don't really want what we think we desire
-Why be happy when you could be interesting?
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More than ever we need philosophy today
-We Need Thinking
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An event is a dramatic encounter which to put it in more learned philosophical terms retroactively creates its own causes
-Events and Encounters Explain Our Fear of Falling in Love

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