Slavoj Žižek
Philosopher and cultural critic
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist who works with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Hegel and Marxism. He has written over 50 books.
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Slovenian Born 1949 in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Influenced by Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Immanuel Kant, Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida
About Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek was born in Ljubljana in 1949 and earned a Doctor of Arts in Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana. He later studied psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII. In 1990 he ran as a candidate for the Presidency of Slovenia, and since 2005 he has belonged to the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, and he also holds a professorship at the European Graduate School, in the fields of philosophy and psychoanalysis. He is a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana as well. From 2004 until September 2025 he served as international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, part of the University of London. His first book in English was The Sublime Object of Ideology, published in 1989. He is known for using the work of the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan to read popular culture, and How to Read Lacan is among his books.