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Slavoj Žižek (/ ˈ s l ɑː v ɔɪ ˈ ʒ iː ʒ ɛ k / ⓘ SLAH-voy ZHEE-zhek; Slovene: [ˈsláːʋɔj ˈʒíːʒək]; born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian Marxist philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual.
Her father is the architectural historian Peter Krečič.She has been married to Slavoj Žižek since 2013. [1]Jela Krečič graduated in 2002 at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana; [2] in 2009, under the mentorship of Mladen Dolar, she earned a PhD in philosophy from the Faculty of Arts.
Žižek opposes any simplistic reading of the two thinkers, who are shown to have discovered the "kernel" of meaning concealed within the apparently unconnected "forms" of commodities (Marx) and dreams (Freud). Žižek thinks it is more important to ask why latent content takes a particular form.
"Intellectual rock star Slavoj Žižek dishes out another action-packed lesson in film history and Marxist dialectics with The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, a riveting and often hilarious demonstration of the Slovenian philosopher's uncanny ability to turn movies inside out and accepted notions on their head."
Aside from an athlete's stats and performance on the field, fans tend to be equally curious about a player's love life. The term WAG, an acronym for wives and girlfriends, is typically used in ...
The Parallax View (2006) is a book by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek.Like many of Žižek's books, it covers a wide range of topics, including philosophy, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, politics, literature, and film.
Another hidden meaning in the name is the origin of sapphic. Yes, the word that relates to lesbians. Sappho was the name of a famous Greek poet who wrote about her love of women.
Welcome to the Desert of the Real is a 2002 book by Slavoj Žižek.A Marxist and Lacanian analysis of the ideological and political responses to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Zizek's study incorporates various psychoanalytic, postmodernist, biopolitical, and (Christian) universalist influences into a Marxist dialectical framework.