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Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek, a Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst, is a senior researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, in Essen, Germany. He has also been a visiting professor at more than 10 universities around the world. Žižek is the author of many other books, including Living in the End Times, First As Tragedy, Then As Farce, The Fragile Absolute and Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? He lives in London.
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Barbarism With A Human Face
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‘O Earth, Pale Mother!’
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A Soft Focus on War
How Hollywood hides the horrors of war. more »
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Iran on the Brink
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Why Cynics Are Wrong
The sublime shock of Obama's victory more »
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Through the Glasses Darkly
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The Audacity of Rhetoric
In January, when the United States remembered the tragic death of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., an more »
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The Ambiguous Legacy of ‘68
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