Slavoj Žižek — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London
Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University
Professor of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis at the European Graduate School
Senior Researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana
Author of over 50 books, including "The Sublime Object of Ideology" (1989)
Associate of the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis, focusing on German idealism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, ideology critique, and media criticism

Biography

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian neo-Marxist philosopher, cultural theorist, and public intellectual. Born on March 21, 1949, he is recognized for his contributions to continental philosophy, particularly his work on Hegelianism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism, as well as political theory, film criticism, and theology.

Žižek holds several prominent academic appointments.