Slavoj Žižek, a Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst, is a senior researcher at the the Institute for Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London. He has also been a visiting professor at more than 10 universities around the world. Žižek is the author of many books, including Living in the End Times, First As Tragedy, Then As Farce, The Year of Dreaming Dangerously and Trouble in Paradise.
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The Not-So-Quiet American
Slavoj Žižek
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The Liberal Waterloo
(Or, finally some good news from Washington!)
Slavoj Žižek
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The Free World ... of Slums
Slavoj Žižek
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What Donald Rumsfeld Doesn't Know That He Knows About Torture and the Iraq War
Why our disavowed beliefs are far more dangerous than our enemies' unknown plots
Slavoj Žižek
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What Does Europe Want?
On May 1, eight new countries were welcomed into the European Union—but which “Europe” will they find there?
Slavoj Žižek
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Passion: Regular or Decaf?
Slavoj Žižek
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What Is To Be Done (With Lenin)?
Slavoj Žižek
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Learning To Love Leni Riefenstahl
Slavoj Žižek
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Will You Laugh for Me, Please?
Slavoj Žižek
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Ideology Reloaded
Slavoj Žižek
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How Much Democracy Is Too Much?
Slavoj Žižek
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Today, Iraq. Tomorrow ... Democracy?
Much more is at stake in this war than the future of Saddam Hussein
Slavoj Žižek
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Catastrophes Real and Imagined
Slavoj Žižek
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The Desert of the Real
Is this the end of fantasy?
Slavoj Žižek
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