Career ĭuring the 1980s, Žižek edited and translated Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, and Louis Althusser. He spent the next few years in what was described as "professional wilderness", also fulfilling his legal duty of undertaking a year-long national service in the Yugoslav army in Karlovac. He graduated from the University of Ljubljana in 1981 with a Doctor of Arts in Philosophy for his dissertation entitled The Theoretical and Practical Relevance of French Structuralism. In 1971 he accepted a job as an assistant researcher with the promise of tenure, but was dismissed after his Master's thesis was denounced by the authorities as being "non-Marxist". Žižek frequented the circles of dissident intellectuals, including the Heideggerian philosophers Tine Hribar and Ivo Urbančič, and published articles in alternative magazines, such as Praxis, Tribuna and Problemi, which he also edited. Žižek had already begun reading French structuralists prior to entering university, and in 1967 he published the first translation of a text by Jacques Derrida into Slovenian. In 1967, during an era of liberalization in Titoist Yugoslavia, Žižek enrolled at the University of Ljubljana and studied philosophy and sociology. Originally wanting to become a filmmaker himself, he abandoned these ambitions and chose to pursue philosophy instead. When Žižek was a teenager his family moved back to Ljubljana where he attended Bežigrad High School. He spent most of his childhood in the coastal town of Portorož, where he was exposed to Western film, theory and popular culture. His mother Vesna, a native of the Gorizia Hills in the Slovenian Littoral, was an accountant in a state enterprise. His father Jože Žižek was an economist and civil servant from the region of Prekmurje in eastern Slovenia. Žižek was born in Ljubljana, PR Slovenia, Yugoslavia, into a middle-class family. A journal, the International Journal of Žižek Studies, was founded by professors David J. Žižek has been called "the leading Hegelian of our time", and "the foremost exponent of Lacanian theory". In 2012, Foreign Policy listed Žižek on its list of Top 100 Global Thinkers, calling him "a celebrity philosopher", while elsewhere he has been dubbed the " Elvis of cultural theory" and "the most dangerous philosopher in the West". The idiosyncratic style of his public appearances, frequent magazine op-eds, and academic works, characterised by use of obscene jokes and pop cultural examples, as well as politically incorrect provocations, have gained him fame, controversy and criticism both in and outside academia. He has written over 50 books in multiple languages. His breakthrough work was 1989's The Sublime Object of Ideology, his first book in English, which was decisive in the introduction of the Ljubljana School's thought to English-speaking audiences. Žižek is the most famous associate of the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis, a group of Slovenian academics working on German Idealism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, ideology critique, and media criticism.
He primarily works on continental philosophy (particularly Hegelianism, psychoanalysis and Marxism) and political theory, as well as film criticism and theology. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana's Department of Philosophy. Slavoj Žižek ( / ˈ s l ɑː v ɔɪ ˈ ʒ iː ʒ ɛ k/ ( listen), SLAH-voy ZHEE-zhek Slovene: born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual.
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