Slavoj Zizek
Geboren: 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.
Biografie & Werdegang des Autors
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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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
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The sublime object of ideology
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"The Telegraph called Slavoj Zizek "the world's hippest philosopher."
— The Telegraph
"Terry Eagleton wrote: "Slavoj Zizek is less a philosopher than a phenomenon."
— Terry Eagleton
"The Observer called Slavoj Zizek "the thinker of choice for Europe's young intellectual vanguard."
— The Observer
"The Chronicle of Higher Education dubbed Slavoj Zizek "the Elvis of cultural theory."
— The Chronicle of Higher Education
"The New Yorker said Slavoj Zizek "leaves no social or natural phenomenon untheorized."
— The New Yorker
"The Village Voice said Slavoj Zizek, "the giant of Ljubljana," provides the best intellectual high since Anti-Oedipus"
— The Village Voice
"Foreign Policy called Slavoj Zizek "a celebrity philosopher."
— Foreign Policy
"Times Literary Supplement called Slavoj Zizek "one of the most innovative and exciting contemporary thinkers of the left."
— Times Literary Supplement
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