Slavoj Žižek is a Slovene sociologist, philosopher, and cultural critic. He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of SFR Yugoslavia). He received a Doctor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Ljubljana and studied psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII with Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault. In 1990 he was a candidate with the party Liberal Democracy of Slovenia for Presidency of the Republic of Slovenia (an auxiliary institution, abolished in 1992). Since 2005, Žižek has been a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Žižek is well known for his use of the works of 20th century French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan in a new reading of popular culture. He writes on many topics including the Iraq War, fundamentalism, capitalism, tolerance, political correctness, globalization, subjectivity, human rights, Lenin, myth, cyberspace, postmodernism, multiculturalism, post-marxism, David Lynch, and Alfred Hitchcock. In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País he jokingly described himself as an "orthodox Lacanian Stalinist". In an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! he described himself as a "Marxist" and a "Communist."
Series
Books
The Neighbor
Three Inquiries in Political Theology
2006
Agitating The Frame
Five essays on economy, ideology, sexuality and cinema
2014
Too Late to Awaken
What Lies Ahead When There is No Future?
2023
The Plague of Fantasies
1997
Antigone
2015
Opera's Second Death
2001
The Most Sublime Hysteric
Hegel with Lacan
1982
Hegel in a Wired Brain
2020
Blasphemische Gedanken
2015
Looking Awry
An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture
1991
Surplus-Enjoyment
A Guide For The Non-Perplexed
2022
En defensa de la intolerancia
1998
How to Read Lacan
2006
Pandemic! & Pandemic! 2
2023
Umbr(a)
War
2004
Philosophy in the Present
2005
On Belief
2001
Heaven in Disorder
2021
Çivisi Çıkan Dünya
Covid-19 Salgını Üzerine Muhasebeler
2020
Reading Marx
2018
The Indivisible Remainder
On Schelling and Related Matters
1996
The Ticklish Subject
The Absent Centre of Political Ontology
1997
Christian Atheism
How to Be a Real Materialist
2024
Die Paradoxien der Mehrlust
Ein Leitfaden für die Nichtverwirrten
2023
Pandemic! 2
Chronicles of a Time Lost
2020
Demanding the Impossible
2004
Reading Hegel
2021
Chocolate sin grasa
2022
The Sublime Object of Ideology
1989
The Monstrosity of Christ
Paradox or Dialectic?
2008
Tarrying with the Negative
Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
1993
Pandemic!
COVID-19 Shakes the World
2020
The Abyss of Freedom/Ages of the World
1997
For They Know Not What They Do
Enjoyment as a Political Factor
1991
Abercrombie and Fitch "Back to School" 2003 Catalog
2003
Absolute Recoil
Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical Materialism
2014
Against Progress
2025
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan
1988
Річ із внутрішнього простору
2022
The Metastases of Enjoyment
On Women and Causality
1994
Incontinence of the Void
Economico-Philosophical Spandrels
2017
A Left That Dares to Speak Its Name
34 Untimely Interventions
2020
Event
Philosophy in Transit
2014
Less Than Nothing
Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
2012
The Courage of Hopelessness
Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously
2017
Trouble in Paradise
From the End of History to the End of Capitalism
2014
The Puppet and the Dwarf
The Perverse Core of Christianity
2003
Zizek's Jokes
2014
Violence
2007
Like a Thief in Broad Daylight
Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism
2018
What Does Europe Want?
The Union and its Discontents
2005
Enjoy Your Symptom!
Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out
1991
Living in the End Times
2010
The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto
2018
Organs without Bodies
On Deleuze and Consequences
2003
In Defense of Lost Causes
2008
Sex and the Failed Absolute
2019
Mapping Ideology
1995
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
2009
Iraq
The Borrowed Kettle
2004
Against the Double Blackmail
Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours
2015
Interrogating the Real
2005
Welcome to the Desert of the Real
Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates
2001
Disparities
2016
Comradely Greetings
The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj
2014
God in Pain
Inversions of Apocalypse
2008
Ayat - Ayat Kiri
2019
Hegel and the Infinite
Religion, Politics, and Dialectic
2011
The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime
On David Lynch's Lost Highway
2005
The Universal Exception
2006
Lacrimae rerum
Essays on Modern Cinema
2006
The Parallax View
2006
The Fragile Absolute
Or, Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For
2000
The Year of Dreaming Dangerously
2012
Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?
Five Interventions in the (Mis)Use of a Notion
2001
