Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 21, 1949
Place of Birth
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Credits
43 titles
Slavoj Žižek
Biography
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
Filmography
The Pervert's Guide to Utopias
Die Macht des Rings
Self - philosopher & cultural critic
Unexpurgated: Slavoj Zizek
himself
Professor Slavoj Žižek on the Problem with Online Dating
Screenplay
Deep Thought
self
Alice, Through the Looking
Self
An Apology for Modernity
Himself
Great Minds
Self
Bliss
Slavoj Žižek
Antigone, How Dare We!
Himself
Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
Self
Jordan Peterson & Slavoj Žižek - Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
Self
Slavoj Žižek Birthday Special: Politics, Philosophy, and Hardcore Pornography
Himself
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
Self
Turn On
Original Concept
Risk
Self
The New Man
Self
The Swap
Self (voice)
Houston, We Have a Problem!
Self
Hyperstition
Self
There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People
Himself (archive footage)
Balkan Spirit
Self - Philosopher
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Self - Host / Philosopher
Catastroika
Self
Marx Reloaded
Self
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
Self - Author - 'In Defence of Lost Causes'
The Title Was Shot
Self (archive footage) (voice)
Alien, Marx & Co. - Zizek Portrait
Self
Hauser and Žižek: Theoreticians of Postmarxist Philosophy
Examined Life
Self
Q&A
Self - Panellist
The Possibility of Hope
Self
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Self - Host / Philosopher
Žižek!
Self
Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
Self
Parola (su una data)
Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin
Himself
The Old and the New
Himself
Predictions of Fire
Self
Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself
Self
Laibach – A Film from Slovenia
Himself
Bravo: Laibach in Film
Himself
Newsnight
Self