10.0
10.0
Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
2019
Writer
Slavoj Žižek
Acting
Born:March 21, 1949(age 77)
Birthplace:Ljubljana, Slovenia
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CommunityBiography
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 University, London Consortium, Princeton, New York University, 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 economic criticism to interpret and speak extensively on immediately current social phenomena.
Filmography (29 movies)
7.7
7.7
Houston, We Have a Problem!
2016
as Self
7.3
7.3
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
2006
Writer
7.3
7.3
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
2012
Writer
7.0
7.0
Laibach – A Film from Slovenia
1993
as Himself
6.7
6.7
Žižek!
2005
as Self
6.6
6.6
Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself
1996
as Self
6.6
6.6
Catastroika
2012
as Self
6.5
6.5
Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
2004
Writer
6.5
6.5
Predictions of Fire
1996
as Self
6.5
6.5
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
2009
as Self - Author - 'In Defence of Lost Causes'
6.4
6.4
Examined Life
2008
as Self
6.4
6.4
Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin
1997
as Himself
6.3
6.3
Marx Reloaded
2011
as Self
5.6
5.6
The Possibility of Hope
2007
as Self
5.5
5.5
Antigone, How Dare We!
2020
as Himself
5.5
5.5
Bliss
2021
as Slavoj Žižek
5.0
5.0
Alien, Marx & Co. - Zizek Portrait
2009
as Self
4.0
4.0
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
2018
as Self
2.7
2.7
Jordan Peterson & Slavoj Žižek - Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
2019
as Self
An Apology for Modernity
2021
as Himself
There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People
2013
as Himself (archive footage)
Hyperstition
2015
as Self
Slavoj Žižek Birthday Special: Politics, Philosophy, and Hardcore Pornography
2019
as Himself
Hauser and Žižek: Theoreticians of Postmarxist Philosophy
2008
Alice, Through the Looking
2021
as Self
The Old and the New
1997
as Himself
Bravo: Laibach in Film
1993
as Himself
Unexpurgated: Slavoj Zizek
2024
as himself
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