I made a video on the life of Bill
Gates a week before and at the end of the
video I asked you guys to leave the name of
your favourite celebrity if you want me to
make a similar video on them. I got a comment
from Faye01. He left the name of Slavoj Zizek.
As said in my previous video I thought of
covering warren Buffet's history in 10 mins
but later I decided to do a video on Zizek
first as per the request. If you want me to
make a video on your favourite celebrity please
do leave it in the comments below. If you
have not heard about zizek heres a quick note
in less than a minute.
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian-born philosopher
and psychoanalyst. He became popular because
of his 2012 documentary “The Pervert’s
Guide to Ideology" in which he analyses various
films and world events. His mannerisms, speech
and humour related to philosophy, politics
and ideology garners him a lot of attention,
particularly from people on the Internet.
He is currently a researcher at the Department
of Philosophy in the University of Ljubljana
Faculty of Arts, Global Distinguished Professor
of German at New York University, International
director of the Birkbeck university for the
Humanities of the University of London and
founder and president of the Society for Theoretical
Psychoanalysis, Ljubljana. Žižek is popularly
known as “the most dangerous philosopher
in the West.”
I had diffcult time getting info on him as
he is not a popular figure or atleast not
as popular as Bill Gates on whom I made my
previous video. And here's what I got on him.
Žižek was born in Ljubljana the capital of Slovenia. His father was an economist
and civil servant while his mother was an
accountant in a state enterprise. He attended
Bežigrad High School and later enrolled at
the University of Ljubljana to study philosophy
and sociology. In 1971 he got a job as an
assistant researcher with the promise of a tenure.
Tenure is something like.. you can be fired
from the post only under extraordinary circumstances.
He was later dismissed from the job after his Master's
thesis was denounced by the authorities as
being "non-Marxist. He later Graduated from
the same university in 1981 with a Doctor
of Arts in Philosophy. In 1985, he completed
a second doctorate at the University of Paris
VIII.
He is known for his translation of books across
the world to his native language Slovenian.
But he is well known for his translations
from French philosophy intellectuals. He even
made translations on detective novels. In
1988, he published his first book dedicated
entirely to film theory. But he achieved international
recognition as a social theorist with the
1989 publication of his first book in English,
The Sublime Object of Ideology. Since then
he has been publishing in journals like Lacanian
Ink, In These Times, New Left Review, The
London Review of Books, Mladina, Dnevnik and
Delo. He is a series editor of the Northwestern
University Press series Diaeresis that publishes
works that "deal not only with philosophy,
but also will intervene at the levels of ideology
critique, politics, and art theory.
He was a member of the Communist Party of
Slovenia from the mid of 1980s until October
1988. Between 1988 and 1990, he was actively
involved in several political and civil society
movements which fought for the democratization
of Slovenia. In the first free elections in
1990, he ran as the Liberal Democratic Party's
candidate. Despite his activity in liberal
democratic projects, he remained committed
to the communist ideal and has been critical
of right-wing circles, such as nationalists,
conservatives, and classical liberals both
in Slovenia and worldwide. He supported Donald
Trump during the presidential elections of
2016, But later in the interview with BBC,
he stated that Trump was "horrible" and his
support is an attempt to encourage the Democratic
Party to return to more leftist ideals.
He was the centre of attention on multiple
documentries. The 1996 German documentary
Liebe Dein Symptom wie Dich selbst! is based
on zizek. Žižek gave a one-hour lecture
on the documentary The Reality of the Virtual
in 2004. It is said that this whole documentary
was done within a day. In 2006 Astra Taylor,
a popular canadian documentary filmmaker made
a documentry Zizek based on the philosophy
of zizek. The most famous ones are the 2006
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema and 2012 The
Pervert's Guide to Ideology which portrays
Žižek's ideas and cultural criticism. The
other notable ones are the Examined Life which
features Žižek speaking about his conception
of ecology and the Marx Reloaded, directed
by Jason Barker on 2011.
Aside from these documentries, journal publications,
books and working in the universities, he
tirelessly gives lectures around the globe
and is often described as “the Elvis of
cultural theory”. Since he uses humour and
provocation to take his points the crowd he
is considered clown by many critiques but
never the less many admire him too. It is
said that even the ones who graduated on philosophy will have a hard time understanding his
views as he jumps from one complicated topic
to another effortlessly. British critical
theorist Terry Eagleton confers, Žižek is
the “most formidably brilliant” theorist
to have emerged from Europe in decades. So
many, in fact, now consider Žižek to be
“the most dangerous philosopher in the West.”
His married Jela Krečič on 2009 who is a
journalist, columnist , philosopher and the
daughter of the architectural historian Peter
Krečič. He is also a fluent speaker of Slovene,
Croatian, French, German and English.
Thanks for watching guys and this is all I
could find about Slavoj Zizek online. Most
of the websites contain just his philosophical
ideas which I don't want to include in this
video as it might make this video as big as
20 minutes. If you want to know more about
him, I ll leave few links in the description which
will redirect to the websites containing his
idealogies. If you want me to make a similar
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