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Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher of the Contemporary era.

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There are 15 attributed quotations from Slavoj Zizek in the 1001Philosophers collection, organized by topic.

Slavoj Zizek b. 1949

Slavoj Zizek (born 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Continental Philosophy, Marxism, and Post-Structuralism.

Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural critic, and one of the most prominent public intellectuals working in the broadly Hegelian and Lacanian tradition. The Sublime Object of Ideology, his 1989 breakthrough, applied Lacanian psychoanalysis to ideology and to the cinema of Hitchcock with equal seriousness, and his later The Ticklish Subject and Less Than Nothing reread Hegel and German Idealism through the lens of psychoanalysis and dialectical materialism. He has written prolifically on cinema, theology, communism, and contemporary politics, and is associated with the European Graduate School and the University of Ljubljana.

Key facts

Nationality: Slovenian
Era: Contemporary
Movements: Continental Philosophy, Marxism, Post-Structuralism

Selected quotes

“It is much easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”
Žižek! (2005); as Žižek notes on p. 1 of Mapping Ideology (1994), the observation that it is easier to imagine the end of the earth than the end of capitalism was originally made by Fredric Jameson .
“We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
Introduction: The Missing Ink", in Welcome to the Desert of the Real!: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates (2002), p. 2
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“Love is not idealization; love is the loved one in his or her ordinary, accidental being.”
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“The function of ideology is not to offer us a point of escape from our reality but to offer us social reality itself as an escape.”
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“The truly difficult thing is not to dream of a better world; the truly difficult thing is to wake up.”

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When was Slavoj Zizek born?: Slavoj Zizek was born in 1949.
Where was Slavoj Zizek from?: Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher of the Contemporary era.
What philosophical movements is Slavoj Zizek associated with?: Slavoj Zizek is associated with Continental Philosophy, Marxism, and Post-Structuralism.
What is Slavoj Zizek known for?: Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural critic, and one of the most prominent public intellectuals working in the broadly Hegelian and Lacanian tradition.
How many quotes are attributed to Slavoj Zizek?: There are 15 attributed quotations from Slavoj Zizek in the 1001Philosophers collection, organized by topic.