Slavoj Žižek
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Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic known for his idiosyncratic blend of Hegelian dialectics, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Marxist theory applied to contemporary culture and politics.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Slavoj Žižek canonical | 36 |
| Žižek | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Slavoj Žižek Context triple: [Phenomenology of Spirit, influenced, Slavoj Žižek]
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Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze was a 20th-century French philosopher known for his influential work on metaphysics, difference, and desire, and for his collaborations with Félix Guattari on concepts such as rhizomes and deterritorialization.
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Alexandre Kojève
Alexandre Kojève was a 20th-century Russian-French philosopher best known for his influential Paris lectures on Hegel that shaped postwar French existentialism, structuralism, and political thought.
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C.
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault was a French philosopher and social theorist known for his influential analyses of power, knowledge, and institutions in works such as "Discipline and Punish" and "The History of Sexuality."
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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse was a German-American philosopher and critical theorist associated with the Frankfurt School, known for his critiques of advanced industrial society and influential works such as "One-Dimensional Man."
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Douglas Kellner
Douglas Kellner is an American critical theorist and cultural studies scholar known for his analyses of media, technology, and contemporary society.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Slavoj Žižek Target entity description: Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic known for his idiosyncratic blend of Hegelian dialectics, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Marxist theory applied to contemporary culture and politics.
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A.
Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze was a 20th-century French philosopher known for his influential work on metaphysics, difference, and desire, and for his collaborations with Félix Guattari on concepts such as rhizomes and deterritorialization.
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B.
Alexandre Kojève
Alexandre Kojève was a 20th-century Russian-French philosopher best known for his influential Paris lectures on Hegel that shaped postwar French existentialism, structuralism, and political thought.
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C.
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault was a French philosopher and social theorist known for his influential analyses of power, knowledge, and institutions in works such as "Discipline and Punish" and "The History of Sexuality."
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D.
Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse was a German-American philosopher and critical theorist associated with the Frankfurt School, known for his critiques of advanced industrial society and influential works such as "One-Dimensional Man."
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E.
Douglas Kellner
Douglas Kellner is an American critical theorist and cultural studies scholar known for his analyses of media, technology, and contemporary society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cultural critic
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human ⓘ philosopher ⓘ political theorist ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1949-03-21 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Ljubljana ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Slovenia ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Božidar Debenjak ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Ljubljana ⓘ |
| employer |
Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities
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linked to:
Birkbeck, University of London
University of Ljubljana ⓘ |
| familyName |
Žižek
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linked to:
Slavoj Žižek
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| fieldOfWork |
cultural studies
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philosophy ⓘ political theory ⓘ psychoanalysis ⓘ |
| givenName | Slavoj ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
G. W. F. Hegel
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Jacques Lacan ⓘ Karl Marx ⓘ Louis Althusser ⓘ Martin Heidegger ⓘ Sigmund Freud ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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Slovene ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
film theory
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ideology critique ⓘ political ideology ⓘ subjectivity ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| movement |
Lacanian psychoanalysis
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Marxism ⓘ continental philosophy ⓘ |
| name | Slavoj Žižek ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Slovene ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
Lacanian reading of Hegel
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analysis of contemporary capitalism through psychoanalysis ⓘ critique of liberal democracy ⓘ parallax view concept in philosophy ⓘ reinterpretation of ideology as unconscious fantasy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Absolute Recoil
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Enjoy Your Symptom! ⓘ Less Than Nothing ⓘ Like a Thief in Broad Daylight ⓘ Living in the End Times ⓘ The Parallax View ⓘ The Sublime Object of Ideology ⓘ The Ticklish Subject ⓘ Welcome to the Desert of the Real ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool |
Hegelianism
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linked to:
Hegelian dialectics
dialectical materialism ⓘ psychoanalytic theory ⓘ |
| positionHeld | international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities ⓘ |
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Subject: Slavoj Žižek Description of subject: Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic known for his idiosyncratic blend of Hegelian dialectics, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Marxist theory applied to contemporary culture and politics.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
phenomenology of spirit
linked to: Slavoj Žižek
subject linked to:
Louis
subject linked to:
killed his wife Hélène Rytmann in 1980