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Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual.
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entertainment · Slovenian philosopher (born 1949) · philosopher · cultural studies scholar · sociologist · university teacher · essayist · psychoanalyst · cultural critic · politician · theologian · opinion journalist · also Slavoj Žižek, Slavoj Zizek, Zizek, Slavoj Krečič Žižek, Žižek
Born 21 March 1949 · Q184750
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2026· 2 entries
“I did teach a class here [at the University of Cincinnati] and all of the grading was pure bluff,”
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2025· 1 entry
“s photographs in a catalog for Abercrombie & Fitch. Questioned as to the seemliness of a major intellectual writing ad copy, Žižek told The Boston Globe,”
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2024· 1 entry
“s vulgarities and lies should weaken him, these are the basis of why his supporters identify with him.”
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2022· 1 entry
Žižek expressed his support for the Slovenian political party Levica (The Left) at its 5th annual conference
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2019· 4 entries
“a tension in LGBT+ ideology between social constructivism and (some kind of biological) determinism”
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And 2020, Žižek defended his views, saying that Trump's election "created, for the first time in I don't know how many decades, a true American left", citing the boost it gave Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Claimed that "For me, in some sense, all of philosophy happened in [the] fifty years" between Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and the death of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1831)
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Žižek began hosting a mini-series called How to Watch the News with Slavoj Žižek on the RT network
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2018· 3 entries
Won Gold Medal of the Círculo de Bellas Artes (2018).
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Žižek wrote that "manners do matter
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“manners do matter. In tense situations, they are a matter of life and death, a thin line that separates barbarism from civilization.”
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2017· 1 entry
“the decay of common morality and decency”
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2016· 1 entry
Žižek criticized the political left's unwillingness to criticize Cuba out of a perceived loyalty to Fidel Castro, arguing that the U
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2015· 1 entry
Career landmark: Participated in manifiesto el aa este a bueno (tournament / event).
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2014· 2 entries
Rejects the "pseudo-Marxist" total derision of 'formal freedom', claiming that it is necessary for critique: "When we are formally free, only then we become aware how limited this freedom actually is
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After Žižek published an op-ed in the magazine which contained portions of his writing from an earlier book
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2013· 1 entry
Žižek corresponded with imprisoned Russian activist and Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
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2012· 3 entries
“The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012)”
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“It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more successful than ourselves”
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Foreign Policy listed Žižek on its list of Top 100 Global Thinkers, calling him "a celebrity philosopher", while elsewhere he has been dubbed the "Elvis of cultural theory" and "the most dangerous philosopher in the West
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2010· 1 entry
Žižek instead claimed that for him Hegel is more fundamental than Lacan—"Even Lacan is just a tool for me to read Hegel
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2006· 3 entries
“The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006)”
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“is a legacy worth fighting for”
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Žižek plagiarized long passages from an earlier review by Stanley Hornbeck that first appeared in the journal American Renaissance, a publication condemned by the Southern Poverty Law Center as the organ of a "white nati
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2003· 1 entry
Žižek wrote the text to accompany Bruce Weber's photographs in a catalog for Abercrombie & Fitch
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1990· 1 entry
Ran as the Liberal Democratic Party's candidate for the former four-person collective presidency of Slovenia
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1989· 10 entries
“Czasami nierobienie niczego jest najbardziej brutalną rzeczą jaką możemy zrobić.”
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“We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom. (ang.)”
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“I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutions around the corner.”
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“Dziś podnoszą się głosy domagające się kapitalizmu z ludzką twarzą. Tymczasem pytanie brzmi: czy obecne problemy da się rozwiązać w ramach istniejącego systemu? Odpowiedź jest jednoznaczna: nie.”
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“The force of universalism is in you Basques, not in the Spanish state”
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“Love is what makes sex more than masturbation. If there is no love even if you are really with a partner you masturbate with a partner.”
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“A ja uważam, że dzisiaj nie można być lewicowym, nie zgłębiwszy do samego dna choćby źródeł zła stalinizmu, nie wystarczy uznać jego zbrodni.”
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“Opis: cytat dotyczy praskiej wiosny.”
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“Opis: z przemówienia na wiecu protestacyjnym na Liberty Plaza w Nowym Jorku.”
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“Człowiek zyskuje wolność, gdy uwolni się od swego otoczenia. Tylko tak może zyskać jednostkowość. Krok ten musi jednak przypłacić szaleństwem. Ceną za wolność jest obłęd.”
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1988· 1 entry
Published his first book dedicated entirely to film theory, Pogled s strani
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1986· 2 entries
Studied at Paris 8 University, doctorate in France (1986).
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Žižek completed a second doctorate, a Doctor of Philosophy in psychoanalysis, at the University of Paris VIII under Jacques-Alain Miller, entitled "La philosophie entre le symptôme et le fantasme"
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1981· 1 entry
With a Doctor of Arts in Philosophy for his dissertation entitled The Theoretical and Practical Relevance of French Structuralism
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1971· 1 entry
Accepted a job as an assistant researcher with the promise of tenure, but was dismissed after his Master's thesis was denounced by the authorities as being "non-Marxist"
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1967· 2 entries
During an era of liberalization in Titoist Yugoslavia, Žižek enrolled at the University of Ljubljana and studied philosophy and sociology
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Published the first translation of a text by Jacques Derrida into Slovenian
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1949· 1 entry
Born 1949-03-21.
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