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Slavoj Žižek

1949 - Today

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Slavoj Žižek ( SLAH-voy ZHEE-zhek, Slovene: [ˈsláːʋɔj ˈʒíːʒək]; born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian Marxist philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. He is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, professor of philosophy and psychoanalysis at the European Graduate School and senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Slavoj Žižek has received more than 7,166,576 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Slavoj Žižek is the 194th most popular philosopher (up from 216th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Slovenia (down from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Slovene Philosopher.

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is most famous for his work on ideology and psychoanalysis.

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  • 70

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  • 7.74

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  • 4.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Slavoj Žižek ranks 194 out of 1,267. Before him are Nicolas Malebranche, Jakob Böhme, Emmanuel Levinas, Pierre Gassendi, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Baltasar Gracián. After him are Diotima of Mantinea, Solomon ibn Gabirol, Melissus of Samos, Muhammad Abduh, Adam Weishaupt, and John Scotus Eriugena.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Slavoj Žižek ranks 23. Before him are Abdullah Öcalan, André Rieu, Ken Follett, Bruce Springsteen, Roger Taylor, and Sandra Mason. After him are Thomas Sankara, Jessica Lange, Bobby Farrell, Carlos the Jackal, George Foreman, and Alla Pugacheva.

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In Slovenia

Among people born in Slovenia, Slavoj Žižek ranks 4 out of 340. Before him are Barbara of Cilli (1392), Giuseppe Tartini (1692), and France Prešeren (1800). After him are Jože Plečnik (1872), Hugo Wolf (1860), Santorio Santorio (1561), Milan Kučan (1941), Antonio Abetti (1846), Hemma of Gurk (980), Edvard Kardelj (1910), and Franz Miklosich (1813).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Slovenia

Among philosophers born in Slovenia, Slavoj Žižek ranks 1. After him are Jakob Lorber (1800), and Alenka Zupančič (1966).

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