[p2p-research] Slavoj Zizek - Worlds biggest problems

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Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian continental philosopher and critical
theorist working in the traditions of Hegelianism, Marxism and Lacanian
psychoanalysis. He has made contributions to political theory, film
theory, and theoretical psychoanalysis.

Žižek is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University
of Ljubljana, Slovenia and a professor at the European Graduate School.
He has been a visiting professor at, among others, the University of
Chicago, Columbia, London Consortium, Princeton, The New School, the
University of Minnesota, the University of California, Irvine and the
University of Michigan. He is currently the International Director of
the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck, University of
London and president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis,
Ljubljana.

Žižek uses examples from popular culture to explain the theory of
Jacques Lacan and uses Lacanian psychoanalysis, Hegelian philosophy and
Marxist politico-economic critique to interpret social phenomena. He
writes on many topics including subjectivity, ideology, capitalism,
fundamentalism, racism, tolerance, multiculturalism, human rights,
ecology, globalization, the Iraq War, revolution, utopianism,
totalitarianism, postmodernism, popular culture, opera, cinema,
political theology, and religion.

First As Tragedy, Then As Farce by Slavoj Zizek

In Defense of Lost Causes

Interrogating the Real

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