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Slavoj Žižek

1949 - Today

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Slavoj Žižek ( SLAH-voy ZHEE-zhek; Slovene: [ˈsláːʋɔj ˈʒíːʒək]; born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian neo-Marxist philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. Žižek is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, professor of philosophy and psychoanalysis at the European Graduate School and senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana. He primarily works on continental philosophy (particularly Hegelianism, psychoanalysis and Marxism) and political theory, as well as film criticism and theology. Žižek is the most famous associate of the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis, a group of Slovenian academics working on German idealism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, ideology critique, and media criticism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Slavoj Žižek is the 200th most popular philosopher (down from 194th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Slovenia and the most popular Slovene Philosopher.

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is most famous for his work on ideology and psychoanalysis.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Slavoj Žižek ranks 200 out of 1,267. Before him are Ernest Renan, Nicolas Malebranche, John Rawls, Max Horkheimer, Christian Wolff, and Diotima of Mantinea. After him are Karl Kautsky, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, Diogenes of Apollonia, Jean-François Lyotard, Rudolf Carnap, and Hasan al-Basri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Slavoj Žižek ranks 27. Before him are Sigourney Weaver, André Rieu, Maurice Gibb, Joan Enric Vives Sicília, Ranil Wickremesinghe, and Bruce Springsteen. After him are Sandra Mason, Mohammed Shahabuddin, Jessica Lange, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Jeff Bridges, and Thaksin Shinawatra.

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In Slovenia

Among people born in Slovenia, Slavoj Žižek ranks 4 out of 340. Before him are Melania Trump (1970), Giuseppe Tartini (1692), and Arkan (1952). After him are Barbara of Cilli (1392), France Prešeren (1800), Hugo Wolf (1860), Franz Miklosich (1813), Jože Plečnik (1872), Santorio Santorio (1561), Milan Kučan (1941), and Janez Drnovšek (1950).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Slovenia

Among philosophers born in Slovenia, Slavoj Žižek ranks 1. After him are Jakob Lorber (1800), and Alenka Zupančič (1966).

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