About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Slavoj i ek, Edvard Kardelj, Milan Vidmar, Jo e Javor ek, Jo e Pu nik, Du an Pirjevec, Spomenka Hribar, Borut Pahor, Angela Vode, Vitomil Zupan, Mitja Ribi i, Ivo Urban i, Zoran Thaler, Pavel Gantar, Renata Salecl, Rastko Mo nik, Igor Bav ar, Gregor Golobi, Igor Torkar, Fran Zwitter, Gregor Tomc, Primo Kozak, Veljko Rus, Rado Riha, Stane Dolanc, Sergej Kraigher, Bo idar Debenjak, Boris Kidri, Ferdo Kozak, Avgust Pirjevec, Fran Albreht, Ciril Ribi i, Alenka Zupan i, Ju Kozak, Jelica umi Riha, Majda irca, France Klop i, Aurelio Juri, Josip Vidmar, Janko Pleterski, Igor Pribac, Mile Klop i . Excerpt: Slavoj i ek (pronounced; born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian continental philosopher and critical theorist working in the traditions of Hegelianism, Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He has made contributions to political theory, film theory, and theoretical psychoanalysis. i ek is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a professor at the European Graduate School. He has been a visiting professor at, among others, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, London Consortium, Princeton, New York University, The New School, the University of Minnesota, the University of California, Irvine and the University of Michigan. He is currently the International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London and president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Ljubljana. i ek uses examples from popular culture to explain the theory of Jacques Lacan and uses Lacanian psychoanalysis, Hegelian philosophy and Marxist economic criticism to interpret and speak extensively on immediately current social phenomena, including the current ongoing global financial crisis. In a 2008 interview with Amy Goodman on the New York...
