Slavoj Žižek returns to Seton Hall University's Poetry-in-the-Round speaker series with his talk "Why Authoritarian Leaders are Obscene"
He is the author of several dozen academic books—including The Sublime Object of Ideology, The Parallax View, Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism, and, most recently, Freedom: A Disease without Cure—as well as a playwright whose 2016 play The Three Lives of Antigone reimagines Sophocles’s classical tragedy for a twenty-first- century audience. Among his many current academic positions, he is Senior Researcher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), Professor of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis at the European Graduate School (Switzerland), and International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London.
Co-sponsored by the Department of English, the University Core, and the Dean’s Office of the College of Arts & Sciences.