Slavoj Žižek. In the light of humanity and the Post-Modern. 2009 1 / 17

Hegel, Slavoj Žižek www.egs.edu discuss in relation to Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator, Leni Riefenstahl, fascism, the objectivity of the Nazi propaganda film Kolberg, Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock in the film. He also spoke to Peter Sloterdijk and Jürgen Habermas, ethics, dignity, military technology, drugs pharmonarcoleptic, Scientology, Ron Hubbard. Public Lecture open to students and faculty from the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies DepartmentProgram, Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Slavoj Zizek is one of the greatest philosophers of our time. In order for Marx and philosophers to examine not only the world but to change it, its boundaries on the work of the Gospel. Standing astride critical theory, the traditional philosophy, politics and film theory and psychoanalytic theory, he is in a sense, the only contemporary legacy of Lacan, to Lacan, what Lacan once did for Freud . Although accused at times of instability,Žižek uses instead the philosophical tradition, in constant (and undermining) received truths. He argued that it is the role of the philosopher as the other great telling us to act in the world, but it is the role of the thinker to challenge our ideological presuppositions. Slavoj Zizek is international director of the Institute for Humanities Birkbeck, professor of philosophy and psychoanalysis at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, SwitzerlandVisit ...