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Born on March 21, 1949, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Bachelor or Arts philosophy (philosophy and sociology, 1971), Master of Arts (philosophy, 1975), and Doctor of Arts (philosophy, 1981) at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana. Doctor of Arts (psychoanalysis, 1985) at the Université Paris-VIII.
From 1979 researcher at the Institute for sociology and philosophy, University of Ljubljana (from 1992 Institute for Social Sciences, Faculty for Social Sciences).Visiting professor at the Department of Psychoanalysis, Université Paris-VIII (1982-3 and 1985-6), at the Centre for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Art, SUNY Buffalo (1991-2), at the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (1992), at the Tulane University, New Orleans (1993), at the Cardozo Law School, New York (1994) at the Columbia University, New York (1995) and at the Princeton University (1996). Currently (2006) associated with Birkbeck College (London) and the European Graduate School (Saas-Fee, Switzerland) ...
Founder and president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Ljubljana. Editor of the following book series: Analecta (in Slovene), Wo es war (in German), Wo es war (with Verso) and SIC (with Duke University Press) in English. Ambassador of Science of the Republic of Slovenia (1991).
1/ Slavoj Zizek, The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Center of Political Ontology (London: Verso, 1999) - 416 pages - ISBNs 1-859-84894-X (cloth) / 1-859-84291-7 (paper)
"A spectre is haunting Western academia, the spectre of the Cartesian subject. Deconstructionists and Habermasians, cognitive scientists and Heideggerians, feminists and New Age obscurantists -- all are united in their hostility to it. The Ticklish Subject seeks to undermine the common presuppositions of all these crititiqes by posing a provocative question: What if there is a subversive core of the Cartesian subject to be unearthed, a core that provides the indispensable philosophical point of reference of any genuinely emancipatory politics [...]"
2/ Slavoj Zizek, The Indivisible Remainder: Essays on Schiller and Related Matters (London: Verso, 1996) - 256 pages - Wo es War Series - ISBNs 1-859-84959-8 (cloth) / 1-859-84094-9 (paper)
"The feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius' De rerum natura through Capital to the writings of Lacan, is their unfinished character: again and again they tackle their chosen problem. Schelling's Weltalter drafts belong to this same series, with their repeated attempt at the formulation of the 'beginning of the world', of the passage from the pre-symbolic pulsation of the Real to the universe of logos [...]"
3/ In his Britannica.com essay "No Sex, Please! We're Post-Human", Slavoj Zizek suggests that "the end of sexuality in the form of the much celebrated 'post-human' self-cloning entity expected to emerge soon, far from opening up the way to pure spirituality, will signal the end of what is traditionally designated as uniquely human spiritual transcendence." - No Sex, Please! We're Post-Human (Lacan dot com)
4/ "Insofar as an interpretation or theoretical explanation of a work of art endeavours to 'frame' its object, one can say that this modernist dialectics provides another example of how the frame is always included in, is a part of, the framed content: in modernism, theory about the work is comprised in the work, the work is a kind of preemptive strike at possible theories about itself. On that account, it is inappropriate to reproach Joyce for no longer writing for a naive reader capable of an immediate consumption of his works, but for a reflected reader, who is only able to read with an eye on possible theoretical interpretations of what he is reading, in short, for a literary scientist: such a 'reflected' approach in no way diminishes our enjoyment in the work - quite the contrary, it supplements our reading with a surplus-enjoyment which is one of the trademarks of true modernism." --Slavoj Zizek, From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power (Plexus/Lacanian Ink, 1997)
5/ Enjoy Your Zizek! - Lingua Franca takes the measure of the Slovenian giant (10/1998) - P.S., Lingua Franca (online and otherwise) crashed and burned sometime last year (this listing has been retained should you wish to look for the print edition)
6/ Slavoj Zizek, "Il n'y a pas de rapport religieux", in Lacanian Ink 18 (2001)
7/ The Apocrypha / Correspondences - Three Jacques - "All things considered, it seems clear that this dream-like repartee has, at the very least, the participation of Jacques-Alain Miller, my friend and former psychoanalyst. I say this hesitatingly, but with a good deal of pride: The inimitable style is there, here and there, if one parses the odd syntax. And there is, too, an extended subliminal slippage (even at phonemic-pun levels), between Lacanian theoretical/clinical matter and 'obvious' dilletantish garbage, for the 'correspondence' to be anything but the brain-child of someone deeply-in-the-know." (BathHouse Magazine, 2001)
8/ The Fright of Real Tears: Krzystof Kieslowski Between Theory and Post-Theory, Slavoj Zizek (London: British Film Institute, 2001) - 240 pages - ISBNs 0-851-70754-8 (paper) / 0-851-70755-6 (cloth) - Review (Central Europe Review)
9/ Slavoj Zizek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real (The Symptom)
10/ Vladimir Lenin, edited by Slavoj Zizek, Revolution at the Gates: Selected Writings of Lenin from 1917 (London: Verso, 2002)
11/ Slavoj Zizek, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003) - Paper, 188 pages, ISBN 0-262-74025-7 - Regarding the so-called "theological turn", see Zizek / Badiou (plus, Agamben and Marion ...) / French edition, La Marionnette et le nain, trans. Jean-Pierre Ricard, Jean-Louis Schlegel (Paris: Seuil, 2006) - 238 pages, ISBN 2-020-81862-0 - "À l’heure où les spiritualités exotiques prospèrent et où l’on vante les vertus des croyances « vécues de l’intérieur », voici un livre politiquement tout à fait incorrect qui s’appuie sur Jésus, Hegel, Steven Spielberg, Job, Nietzsche, Harry Potter, Staline, saint Paul, Bill Clinton, Heidegger et quelques autres. Soumettant les diverses formes du religieux aujourd’hui au crible d’un regard lacanien, Slavoj Žižek procède ce faisant à une relecture iconoclaste du christianisme. Au terme d’une analyse délibérément politique, s’il n’hésite pas à dénoncer les tendances perverses du christianisme, il en affirme aussi et surtout le caractère proprement révolutionnaire en mettant au jour son noyau « matérialiste »." (Seuil)
12/ Twin, retrospective collections of essays from Verso surveying the post-modernist miasma by way of Lacanian exegesis - Slavoj Zizek, Interrogating the Real (London: Verso, 2005) - Cloth, 384 pages, ISBN 0-826-47110-2; and Slavoj Zizek, Universal Exception (London: Verso, 2005) - Cloth, 352 pages, ISBN 0-826-47109-9
13/ Zizek has also appeared in the pages of Angelaki: "The Thing from Inner Space: On Tarkovsky" (1999); "Deeper than the Day Could Read" (2002); "From Proto-Reality to the Act: 'A Reply to Peter Dews'" (2000) / For Angelaki, see Journals / Zines (Yellow Pages) ...
14/ For "The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape" (In These Times, 10/20/05), cliquez ici ...
15/ Excerpts from The Parallax View (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006), courtesy of Lacan dot com: 1/ For "The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference", cliquez ici; 2/ For "The Birth of (Hegelian) Universality Out of the Spirit of (Kantian) Antinomies", cliquez ici; 3/ For "The Parallax of the Critique of Political Economy", cliquez ici ...
EAGLETON ON ZIZEK: "Zizek has only to clap his eyes on a received truth to feel the intolerable itch to deface it […] As a card-carrying Lacanian, Zizek holds to the hard, horrific core of the Real and the immortality of the death drive […]" Terry Eagleton, "On the Contrary", Artforum (Summer 2006), pp. 61-62, Review of The Parallax View (2006)
16/ For Slavoj Zizek on Alain Badiou and Logiques des mondes, cliquez ici (Lacan dot com) ...
17/ Recent titles ... In Defense of Lost Causes (London: Verso, 2008) - See especially Chapter 8, "Alain Badiou, or, the Violence of Subtraction", pp. 381-419, wherein Zizek positions his colleague as the defender of Plato, or the defender of the "phono-logocentric" space of rationality itself ... / Violence (London: Profile Books, 2008) ... A virtuoso performance on the nature of violence, its structural or binary condition within political and cultural systems, plus its appearance as 'exception' (or exceptional form of sovereignty per se) ... Due from Picador, in the US, in August 2008 ...
Zizek typically holds forth online @ Lacan dot com / Zizek Videos (01/2006) ...
See Zizek vis-à-vis The Post-Communist Condition ...
See also - Hommage à Agamben (Samizdat) ...