Slavoj Žižek
Author of The Sublime Object of Ideology
About the Author
Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and political activist. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, and Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University. He is the author of numerous books on dialectical materialism, as show more well as critique of ideology and art, including Event, and Trouble in Paradise, both published by Melville House. show less
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Series
Works by Slavoj Žižek
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan: But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock (1992) 174 copies
Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours (2013) 156 copies
The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway (Occasional Papers (Walter Chapin Simpson Center for… (2000) 71 copies
Lacrimae Rerum: Ensayos sobre cine moderno y ciberespacio / Essays about modern cinema and cyberspace (Spanish Edition) (2005) 39 copies
Mirando Al Sesgo: Una Introduccion a Jacques Lacan a Traves de La Cultura Popular (Spanish Edition) (2000) 7 copies
The pervert's guide to ideology 5 copies
Liebe Deinen Nächsten? Nein, Danke!Die Sackgasse Des Sozialen In Der Postmoderne (1999) — Author — 4 copies
Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch: Zwei Essays über sexuelle Differenz als philosophische Kategorie (1999) 4 copies
Die Paradoxien der Mehrlust: Ein Leitfaden für die Nichtverwirrten (Fischer Wissenschaft) (2023) 3 copies
AS METÁSTASES DO GOZO 2 copies
La idea de comunismo. The Seoul Conference (2013) (Pensamiento Crítico) (Spanish Edition) (2018) 2 copies
Territorios Inexplorados. Lenin después de Octubre (Cuestiones de antagonismo) (Spanish Edition) (2018) 2 copies
Mao. Sobre la práctica y la contradicción. Slavoj Zizek presenta a Mao (Revoluciones) (Spanish Edition) (2010) 2 copies
Return of the natives 1 copy
Bliźni 1 copy
začeti od začetka 1 copy
کژ نگریستن 1 copy
The Matrix 1 copy
Eppur si muove 1 copy
Pogled s strani 1 copy
A SUBJECTIVIDADE POR VIR 1 copy
Zizek! 1 copy
Disparen contra Marx 1 copy
Panic! Pandemic! 2 1 copy
Lacan — Author — 1 copy
Dünyadaki İsyanların Anlamı 1 copy
Slavoj Zizek 1 copy
Il sesso e l'assoluto 1 copy
Cómo leer a Lacan 1 copy
Ideologikritik 1 copy
VIRTUE AND TERROR 1 copy
Associated Works
The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Popular Culture and Philosophy) (2002) — Contributor — 832 copies
In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution (2003) — Foreword, some editions — 94 copies
The Sleeping Giant Has Awoken: The New Politics of Religion in the United States (2008) — Afterword — 5 copies
The Possibility of Hope [2007 film] — Philosopher and Cultural Critic — 3 copies
Das schlaue Füchslein. Musik und Libretto von Leoš Janáček — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Žižek, Slavoj
- Birthdate
- 1949-03-21
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Slovenia
- Birthplace
- Ljubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia
- Places of residence
- Ljubljana, Slovenia
Portorož, Slovenia
Paris, France - Education
- University of Ljubljana (Ph.D|1981)
University of Paris VIII (Ph.D|1986)
Bežigrad High School - Occupations
- philosopher
university professor - Relationships
- Salecl, Renata (former spouse)
Krečič, Jela (wife) - Organizations
- Communist Party of Slovenia
Slovenian Committee for the Defence of Human Rights
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Ljubljana Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis
University of Ljubljana
European Graduate School (show all 7)
University of London
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- Works
- 254
- Also by
- 18
- Members
- 15,018
- Popularity
- #1,527
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
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- ISBNs
- 852
- Languages
- 30
- Favorited
- 49
This is a collection of essays that playfully touch on all the things that we have been obsessing about since the pandemic started. As expected, Žižek makes a strong case for systemic change. We need a new way of doing things, to save ourselves and the planet.
Unfortunately, a year into the pandemic it seems like humanity has once again chosen the "civilized barbarism", putting a higher value on the abstract of the market economy than the survival of the weakest.
This is Žižek at his best, funny, lucid and strangely optimistic. I do miss him being more provocative, but in a book like this that would be out of place and he is aware of it.
In the light of climate change, there have been many calls for the global government and the change of the destructive neoliberal economic model (most notably by Chomsky in 2019 - [b:Internationalism or Extinction|52170427|Internationalism or Extinction|Noam Chomsky|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1574743215l/52170427._SX50_SY75_.jpg|72999976]).
The Covid-19 pandemic only made it more clear that such a change is absolutely crucial. Unfortunately for many in the West, the bogeyman of "old communism" is still very much alive and may destroy any attempt of such change. But, the power of crisis is that it makes things seem possible because the crisis will inevitably cause change, as we have all witnessed over the last year.
The question is simple: “Will the epidemic be reduced to another chapter in the long sad story of what Naomi Klein called “disaster capitalism,” or will a new, better-balanced if perhaps more modest, world order emerge from it?”
So is the answer: “A common sooth now in circulation is that, since we are all now in this crisis together, we should forget about politics and just work in unison to save ourselves. This notion is false: true politics are needed now—decisions about solidarity are eminently political.”… (more)