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Slavoj Žižek
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.
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Unexpurgated: Slavoj Zizek
Alice, Through the Looking
Bliss
An Apology for Modernity
Antigone, How Dare We!
Jordan Peterson & Slavoj Žižek - Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
Slavoj Žižek Birthday Special: Politics, Philosophy, and Hardcore Pornography
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
Risk
Houston, We Have a Problem!
The New Man
The Swap
Hyperstition
There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People
Balkan Spirit
Catastroika
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Marx Reloaded
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
Alien, Marx & Co. - Zizek Portrait
The Title Was Shot
Examined Life
Hauser and Žižek: Theoreticians of Postmarxist Philosophy
The Possibility of Hope
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Žižek!
Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
The Old and the New
Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin