Slavoj Zizek Quotes


I planted some jokes in my wedding. Like, the organizers asked me to select music. So when I approached wife at the ceremony, they played the second movement from Shostakovich's 10th Symphony, which is usually known as the "portrait of Stalin." And then when we embraced, the music that they played was Schubert's "Death and the Maiden." I enjoyed this in a childish way! But marriage was all a nightmare and so on and so on.


Citations

Žižek, Slavoj. "Slavoj Žižek: 'Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots'." Interview by Decca Aitkenhead. The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 10 June 2012.

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Slavoj Zizek
Slavoj Zizek
  • Born: March 21, 1949
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Musician

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher, a researcher at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Arts and international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities of the University of London. He is also Global Eminent Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul and Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University. He works in subjects including continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, political theory, cultural studies, art criticism, film criticism, Marxism, Hegelianism and theology.