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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.
- Žižek believes that the left is losing. While many right-leaning commentators in the West see a resurgent left in the growth of the welfare state and ascendance of political correctness and “woke” politics, Žižek sees the opposite.
- Žižek believes that most people are boring idiots. Part of what has made Žižek famous is that he doesn’t mince words. Similar to actual revolutionaries such as Che Guevara, Žižek believes that identity politics and things like the LGBT movement are actually bourgeois affectations that distract – and actively undermine – class consciousness and class struggle.
- Žižek considers himself a “faithful Christian” even though he is an atheist. Žižek considers himself to be a Christian atheist. Although many would call this a contradiction, he believes in his own version of Christianity.
- Žižek believes we are all ideological beings. Marx considered ideology to be “false consciousness” and simply one of the ways in which people can be tied down and lose sight of their class interests.
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...
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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.
