Slavoj Žižek (Ljubljana, March 21, 1949) is a sociologist, philosopher, psychoanalyst, and philologist. He studied philosophy and psychoanalysis at the University of Paris, where he received his doctorate in 1981. In 1990, he was a candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Slovenia. His professional career includes a research position at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, as well as visiting professorships at universities such as Columbia and Princeton. In addition to his numerous essays and articles for the press, over the past fifteen years Žižek has participated in more than 250 international conferences on philosophy, psychoanalysis, and critical culture. Žižek is considered one of the most important critical thinkers of his generation.

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The sublime object of ideology (1992)
Because they don't know what they're doing. Pleasure as a political factor (1998)
Cultural Studies. Reflections on Multiculturalism (1998)
The thorny subject. The absent center of political ontology (2001)
Who said totalitarianism? Five interventions on the (bad) one of a notion (2002)
Contingency, Hegemony, Universality (2003)
Ideology. A map of the issue (2003)
Violence in Action. Conferences in Buenos Aires (2004)
The Soft Revolution (2004)
The puppet and the dwarf. The perverse core of Christianity (2005)
Love without mercy. Towards a politics of truth (2005)
The suspensepolitical interpretation of ethics (2005) 
In defense of intolerance (2007)
On violence. Six marginal reflections (2009)
In defense of lost causes (2011)
First as tragedy, then as farce (2011)
Less than nothing. Hegel and the shadow of dialectical materialism (2015)
The new class struggle. Refugees and terror (2016)