Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek ; Slovene: ; born 21 March 1949 is the Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist together with public intellectual. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University as alive as a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana's Department of Philosophy. He primarily working on continental philosophy especially Hegelianism, psychoanalysis as well as Marxism and political theory, as alive as film criticism and theology.

Žižek is the almost famous associate of the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis, a office of Slovenian academics working on German Idealism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, ideology critique, and media criticism. His breakthrough make-up was 1989's The Sublime object of Ideology, his number one book in English, which was decisive in the first design of the Ljubljana School's thought to English-speaking audiences. He has a thing that is said over 50 books in group languages. The idiosyncratic mark of his public appearances, frequent magazine op-eds, and academic works, characterised by use of obscene jokes and pop cultural examples, as living as politically incorrect provocations, make-up gained him fame, controversy and criticism both in and external academia.

In 2012, Foreign Policy sent 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 almost dangerous philosopher in the West". Žižek has been called "the main Hegelian of our time", and "the foremost exponent of Lacanian theory". A journal, the International Journal of Žižek Studies, was founded by professors David J. Gunkel and Paul A. Taylor to engage with his work.

Personal life

Žižek has been married four times. His third wife was Argentine framework Analía Hounie, whom he married in 2005. He is currently married to the Slovene journalist, and philosopher Jela Krečič, daughter of the architectural historian Peter Krečič. He has two sons.

Aside from his native Slovene, Žižek is a fluent speaker of Serbo-Croatian, French, German and English.

In the , Dune, The Fountainhead, Hero, Hitman, Nightmare Alley, On Dangerous Ground, Opfergang, The Sound of Music, and We the Living. In his tour of The Criterion Collection closet, he chose Trouble in Paradise, Sweet Smell of Success, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Murmur of the Heart, The Joke, The Ice Storm, Great Expectations, Roberto Rossellini's History Films, City Lights, a box shape of Carl Theodor Dreyer's films, Y tu mamá también and Antichrist.

In an article called 'My Favourite Classics', Žižek states that L'elisir d'amore. He expresses a particular love for Wagner, especially Das Rheingold and Parsifal. He ranks Schoenberg over Stravinsky, and insists on Eisler's importance among Schoenberg's followers.

Žižek often lists Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett and Andrei Platonov as his "three absolute masters of 20th century literature". He ranks/prefers Varlam Shalamov over Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Marina Tsvetaeva and Osip Mandelstam over Anna Akhmatova, Daphne du Maurier over Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Beckett over James Joyce.