Slavoj Zizek
Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist who works on Hegel, Lacan and Marxism. He is the author of The Sublime Object of Ideology.
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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 Zizek
Slavoj Žižek was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 21 March 1949. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Ljubljana, and his psychoanalysis studies took place at the University of Paris VIII. He is a Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University and a professor at the European Graduate School. He is also a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana. From 2004 until September 2025 he held the post of international director at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, part of the University of London. The Sublime Object of Ideology, published in 1989, was his first book in English. It introduced the thinking of the Ljubljana School to English-speaking readers. He has written over 50 books, and his work spans continental philosophy, political theory, film criticism and theology.