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About Slavoj Žižek

The Slovenian Marxist philosopher and cultural critic is one of the most distinguished thinkers of our time. Žižek achieved international recognition as a social theorist after the 1989 publication of his first book in English, "The Sublime Object of Ideology“. He is a regular contributor to newspapers like “The Guardian”, “Die Zeit” or "The New York Times“. He has been labelled by some the "Elvis of cultural theory“ and is the subject of numerous documentaries and books.
Latest Posts | By Slavoj Žižek
Why Politics is Immanently Theological, Part II
3 months ago

Why Politics is Immanently Theological, Part II

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Ethics versus Morality

We often hear today that wokeism and political correctness are gradually receding. Contrary to this opinion, I think that this phenomenon is gradually being “normalized,” widely accepted …
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Why Politics Is Immanently Theological, Part I
3 months ago

Why Politics Is Immanently Theological, Part I

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Why are so many essays entitled “politico-theological treatise”? The answer is that a theory becomes theology when it is part of a full subjective political engagement. As Kierkegaard pointed out, …
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Why Lacan Is Not a Buddhist: A Belated Reply to My Critics
5 months ago

Why Lacan Is Not a Buddhist: A Belated Reply to My Critics

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Over the last decades, critiques of my reading of Buddhism have been abundant. Even those who are otherwise sympathetic to my general approach claim that I miss the point when …
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The Faces of New Barbarism
7 months ago

The Faces of New Barbarism

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In Moscow, authorities began to check the condition of bomb shelters at schools. No one showed the written document itself, but management reported that the order had been received to …
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On “Legitimate Rapes”
8 months ago

On “Legitimate Rapes”

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An obscene event occurred back in 2012. In an effort to explain his stance on abortion, Representative Todd Akin, the Republican Senate nominee from Missouri, provoked ire across the political …
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The Communist Desire
10 months ago

The Communist Desire

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In her stupendous Yesterday’s Tomorrow,[1] Bini Adamczak provides nothing less than the definitive account of what one cannot but call the ineradicable, absolutely authentic, Communist desire, the Idea of a …
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The Political Implications of Non-Representative Art
1 year ago

The Political Implications of Non-Representative Art

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In his Philosophy of History, Hegel provided a wonderful characterization of Thucydides’s book on the Peloponnesian war: “his immortal work is the absolute gain which humanity has derived from that …
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Five Ethico-Political Fragments
1 year ago

Five Ethico-Political Fragments

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CASTRATION HERE, CASTRATION THERE, CASTRATION EVERYWHERE

Weeks ago, the Ukrainian President Zelensky addressed Russian soldiers in Russian, promising them safety and decent treatment if they were captured or surrendered to …
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What Will Grow Out of a Pocket Full of Sunflower Seeds?
1 year ago

What Will Grow Out of a Pocket Full of Sunflower Seeds?

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Michael Marder published in The Philosophical Salon a wonderful text on a Ukrainian woman giving sunflower seeds to a Russian soldier. I call this text wonderful because it does what …
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AOC and Her Boyfriend’s Leg
1 year ago

AOC and Her Boyfriend’s Leg

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In late December 2021, the US nationalist Rightist Steve Cortes tweeted a photo of Alessandria Ocasio-Cortez and her boyfriend Riley Roberts enjoying their Christmas break in Florida, commenting on it: …
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