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Slavoj Žižek is one of the best known Slovene philosophers. He is the author of numerous books that have been reprinted several times in English and has been translated into numerous foreign languages. Blackwell recently published the Žižek Reader in the series, Readers - Contemporary Thinkers. Slavoj Žižek lectures throughout America.

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK (1949)

Slavoj Žižek, one of the best known and provocative Slovene philosophers, born 21.3.1949 in Ljubljana, the leading intellectual of the new social movement of Eastern and Central Europe. He was for many years a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, now employed as a full professor at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. Main author of the Ljubljana School of Theoretical Psychoanalysis, mainly active as a theoretician abroad. Frequent themes of his Lacanian tinted philosophy range from German classical philosophy, film (A. Hitchcock), popular novels to topical political questions. He has also contributed pungent political commentaries in Slovenia. In 1991, appointed ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia for science. He is the author of numerous books, his first independent book, Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan Through Popular Culture, has been reprinted several times in English and has been translated into numerous foreign languages. Around 70 of his independent publications have been published abroad, and Blackwell recently published the Žižek Reader in the series, Readers - Contemporary Thinkers. Slavoj Žižek lectures throughout America, especially in university centres such as Georgetown University, Seattle, Harvard.

 

Books:

1989 THE SUBLIME OBJECT OF IDEOLOGY.
London; New York: Verso.
1991 LOOKING AWRY: AN INTRODUCTION TO JACQUES LACAN THROUGH POPULAR CULTURE.
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO: ENJOYMENT AS A POLITICAL FACTOR.
London; New York: Verso.
1992 ENJOY YOUR SYMPTOM!: JACQUES LACAN IN HOLLYWOOD AND OUT.
London; New York: Routledge.

 

1992 EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT LACAN (BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK HITCHCOCK).
SZ editor. London; New York: Verso.
1993 TARRYING WITH THE NEGATIVE: KANT, HEGEL AND THE CRITIQUE OF IDEOLOGY.
Durham: Duke University Press.
1994 THE METASTASES OF ENJOYMENT: SIX ESSAYS ON WOMAN AND CAUSALITY.
London; New York: Verso.
MAPPING IDEOLOGY.
SZ editor. London; New York: Verso.
1996 GAZE AND VOICE AS LOVE OBJECTS.
Renata Salecl and SZ editors. Durham: Duke University Press.
THE INDIVISIBLE REMAINDER: AN ESSAY ON SCHELLING AND RELATED MATTERS.
London; New York: Verso.
1997 THE ABYSS OF FREEDOM-AGES OF THE WORLD/F.W.J. VON SCHELLING.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
THE PLAGUE OF FANTASIES.
London; New York: Verso
1998 COGITO AND THE UNCONSCIOUS.
SZ editor. Durham: Duke University Press.

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