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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.
- Žižek believes that the left is losing. While many right-leaning commentators in the West see a resurgent left in the growth of the welfare state and ascendance of political correctness and “woke” politics, Žižek sees the opposite.
- Žižek believes that most people are boring idiots. Part of what has made Žižek famous is that he doesn’t mince words. Similar to actual revolutionaries such as Che Guevara, Žižek believes that identity politics and things like the LGBT movement are actually bourgeois affectations that distract – and actively undermine – class consciousness and class struggle.
- Žižek considers himself a “faithful Christian” even though he is an atheist. Žižek considers himself to be a Christian atheist. Although many would call this a contradiction, he believes in his own version of Christianity.
- Žižek believes we are all ideological beings. Marx considered ideology to be “false consciousness” and simply one of the ways in which people can be tied down and lose sight of their class interests.
Slavoj Žižek (born March 21, 1949, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia [now in Slovenia]) is a Slovene philosopher and cultural theorist whose works address themes in psychoanalysis, politics, and popular culture.
Oct 31, 2023 · Žižek, a Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist, is known to many today for his 2019 debate with psychology professor and culture warrior Jordan Peterson. This debate, held in...
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Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian-born political philosopher and cultural critic. He was described by British literary theorist, Terry Eagleton, as the “most formidably brilliant” recent theorist to have emerged from Continental Europe. Žižek’s work is infamously idiosyncratic.
Free from all forms of censorship that pervade our media, Žižek evokes and provokes philosophy, politics, culture, and so on. Click to read ŽIŽEK GOADS AND PRODS, by Slavoj Žižek, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
Slavoj Žižek discusses free will, determinism, historicism, grief, fetishism, quantum physics, Heinrich Himmler, the Enlightenment, and much more.How can the...
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