Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek is a famous Slovenian philosopher, sociologist and cultural critic. Interested in cinema, he considered becoming a film director, but chose instead to study philosophy and sociology at the University of Ljubljana. Nevertheless, cinema continues to play a fundamental role in his life and his work is distinguished by the fact that he regularly analyses cinematographic works from the perspective of philosophy and psychoanalysis. He gained international recognition with the publication in English of ‘The Sublime Object of Ideology’, in 1989, and since then his work encompasses more than 70 books published in various languages. Žižek is notorious for his distinctive style, whether through his published texts or his lectures, characterised by references to popular culture, radical opinions and assertiveness in presenting theories that do not seek to provide a solution, but rather question the status quo. He is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, a professor at New York University and the European Graduate School and a researcher at the Institute of Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana.