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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 · An ideology is any political doctrine that promises to tell people how to organise political life, and where they fit into the larger scheme of things. Marxism-Leninism is one such ideology ...
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...
Slavoj Žižek, Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School, is International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London and the author, most recently, of Christian Atheism: How to Be a Real Materialist (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024). Commentaries.
