Slavoj Žižek | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-15

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Slavoj Žižek


00:01:58 1 Biography
00:02:07 1.1 Early life
00:02:58 1.2 Education
00:04:27 1.3 Career
00:06:00 1.4 Politics
00:09:33 1.5 Public life
00:10:52 1.6 Personal life
00:11:27 1.7 Impact
00:12:16 2 Thought
00:12:25 2.1 Ontology, ideology, and the Real
00:14:44 2.2 Political thought and the postmodern subject
00:17:13 3 Criticism
00:17:36 3.1 Ambiguity and unclear alternatives
00:20:07 3.2 Unorthodox style and scholarship
00:23:04 3.3 Accusations of self-plagiarism in 2014
00:25:00 3.4 Chomsky
00:25:27 4 Published works
00:25:37 4.1 Filmography
00:25:45 4.2 Bibliography



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Slavoj Žižek ( (listen) SLAH-voy ZHEE-zhek; Slovene: [ˈslaʋɔj ˈʒiʒɛk]; born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher. He is a professor at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana 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.