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Slavoj Žižek

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Birthplace: Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Occupation: Philosopher,Cultural critic,Author, Editor, Narrator, Translator, Thesis advisor, Other, Organizer of meetings, Director, Publishing director, Performer, Creator, Originator, Composer, Author of screenplay, Speaker, Interviewer, Scenarist, Redactor
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About Slavoj Žižek

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek

Slavoj Žižek (born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian continental philosopher. He is a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, and international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities of the University of London. He works in subjects including continental philosophy, political theory, cultural studies, psychoanalysis, film criticism, Marxism, Hegelianism and theology.

In 1989, Žižek published his first English text, The Sublime Object of Ideology, in which he departed from traditional Marxist theory to develop a materialist conception of ideology that drew heavily on Lacanian psychoanalysis and Hegelian idealism. His early theoretical work became increasingly eclectic and political in the 1990s, dealing frequently in the critical analysis of disparate forms of popular culture and making him a popular figure of the academic left. A critic of capitalism, neoliberalism and political correctness, Žižek calls himself a political radical, and his work has been characterized as challenging orthodoxies of both the political right and the social-liberal universities.

Žižek's idiosyncratic style, popular academic works, frequent magazine op-eds, and critical assimilation of high and low culture have gained him international influence, controversy, criticism and a substantial audience outside academe. In 2012, 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". Žižek's work was chronicled in a 2005 documentary film entitled Zizek! A scholarly journal, the International Journal of Žižek Studies, was founded to engage his work.

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About Slavoj Žižek (Slovenian)

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Slavoj Žižek, slovenski filozof, * 21. marec 1949, Ljubljana.

Slavoj Žižek je slovenski filozof in kulturni kritik. Bil je profesor na evropski podiplomski šoli, mednarodni direktor Birkbeck Inštituta za humanistične študije in višji raziskovalec na Inštitutu za sociologijo Univerze v Ljubljani, Slovenija.

Žižek je doktoriral iz filozofije. Bil je imenovan "Elvis filozofije" in "akademska rock zvezda." V mladih letih so ga zanimala dela Georga Wilhelma Friedricha Hegla, Karla Marxa in Friedricha Wilhelma Josepha Schellinga.

Leta 1971 je na ljubljanski Filozofski fakulteti diplomiral iz filozofije in sociologije, na isti ustanovi pa še magistriral in doktoriral (1981). Drugič je doktoriral na temo psihoanalize v Parizu (Universite Paris-VII). Tekoče govori slovensko, srbsko, hrvaško, angleško, francosko, nemško in ima osnovno znanje italijanščine.

Om Slavoj Žižek (svenska)

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek

Slavoj Žižek, född 21 mars 1949 i Ljubljana, är en slovensk filosof, sociolog och kulturkritiker. Žižek är professor vid European Graduate School och även verksam vid University of London och Ljubljanas universitet. Žižek grundar sina studier i filosofi och den kritiska skolan såsom hegelianism, marxism och postmodernism, i psykoanalysen genom Jacques Lacan och teologin med fokus på kristen etik.

Žižek är senior researcher vid sociologiinstitutionen vid Ljubljanas universitet och professor vid European Graduate School. Han har varit gästprofessor vid, bland annat, The New School, University of Minnesota, University of California, Irvine och University of Michigan. För tillfället är han Internationell koordinator för Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London och ordförande för Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Ljubljana.

Žižek är känd för att ha använt psykoanalytikern Jacques Lacans teorier för sina tolkningar av populärkultur. Han har även använt Lacaniansk psykoanalys, Hegeliansk filosofi och Marxistisk ekonomikritik för att tolka och utförligt tala om dagsaktuella sociala fenomen, däribland den fortfarande pågående finanskrisen inom den globala kapitalismen. I en intervju med Amy Goodman 2008 i New York-radioprogrammet Democracy Now! beskrev han sig själv som en communist in a qualified sense, vid ett senare tillfälle (oktober 2009) i samma radioprogram beskrev han sig själv vänsterradikal. Žižek är erkänd som en av de främsta intellektuella inom den radikala vänstern.

Förutom tolkningarna av lacaniansk psykoanalys har han skrivit om bland annat subjektivitet, ideologi, kapitalism, fundamentalism, rasism, tolerans, multikulturalism, mänskliga rättigheter, ekologi, globalisering, Irakkriget, revolution, utopianism, totalitarism, cyberrymden, postmodernism, populärkultur, opera, bio, politisk teori och religion.

1990 ställde han upp som presidentkandidat i de slovenska valen.

Bland Žižeks många verk finns bland annat Ideologins sublima objekt, Välkommen till verklighetens öken och Irak: att låna en kittel översatta till svenska.

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1949
March 21, 1949
Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia