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Early life. Žižek was born in Ljubljana, PR Slovenia, Yugoslavia, into a middle-class family. [11] His father Jože Žižek was an economist and civil servant from the region of Prekmurje in eastern Slovenia. His mother Vesna, a native of the Gorizia Hills in the Slovenian Littoral, was an accountant in a state enterprise.
Jul 30, 2021 · There’s no doubt that Žižek has had a major influence on culture and politics and has become a kind of philosopher superstar, but his actual main beliefs are not widely understood. Here are Žižek’s top 10 key ideas.
Slavoj Zizek, Slovene philosopher and cultural theorist whose works addressed themes in psychoanalysis, politics, and popular culture. The broad compass of his theorizing, his deliberately provocative style, and his tendency to leaven his works with humor made him a popular figure in the Western intellectual left.
Oct 31, 2023 · This is why one of Žižek’s early books bears the portentous Biblical title, For They Know Not What They Do. In order to understand these “unconscious” motives, Lacan drew on the ...
Table of Contents. Biography. Žižek’s Political Philosophy. Criticism of Ideology as “False Consciousness”. Ideological Cynicism and Belief. Jouissance as Political Factor. The Reflective Logic of Ideological Judgments (or How the King is King) Sublime Objects of Ideology. Žižek’s Fundamental Ontology.
Slavoj Žižek discusses free will, determinism, historicism, grief, fetishism, quantum physics, Heinrich Himmler, the Enlightenment, and much more.How can the...
Welcome to the Žižek & So On Podcast Žižek & So On is a podcast for people who are interested in the philosophy of Slavoj Žižek, and are looking for an entry point into his work.
