Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek is a philosopher, a psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Books by Slavoj Žižek

Interviews with Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek on His Favourite Plays

The philosopher and cultural critic recently made a foray into drama when he reworked Sophocle’s Antigone—not out of admiration for the original, but to examine the “stupid and morally problematic” character at its heart. Here he selects five plays he admires—but declines to see performed.

Books by Slavoj Žižek

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