Podcast Episodes featuring Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek on His Stubborn Attachment to Communism

Conversations with Tyler - January 08, 2020 12:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
This bonus episode features audio from the Holberg Debate in Bergen, Norway between Tyler and Slavoj Žižek held on December 7, 2019. They discuss the reasons Slavoj (still) considers himself a Communist, why the The Handmaid’s Tale “nostalgia for the present,” what he likes about Greta Thunber...

Slavoj Žižek on His Stubborn Attachment to Communism

Conversations with Tyler - January 08, 2020 12:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
This bonus episode features audio from the Holberg Debate in Bergen, Norway between Tyler and Slavoj Žižek held on December 7, 2019. They discuss the reasons Slavoj (still) considers himself a Communist, why he calls The Handmaid’s Tale “nostalgia for the present,” what he likes about Greta T...

The 2019 Holberg Debate: "Why I am still a communist" with Slavoj Žižek and Tyler Cowen

Holberg Prize Talks - January 02, 2020 15:21 - 2 hours
Slavoj Žižek has been called the «the most dangerous philosopher in the West» and a cultural theorist superstar, as he mixes Marxism with pop culture and psychoanalysis. In an age where the principles of the free marked have become the driving force of both the economy, public services, foreign p...

EP 44: Slavoj Žižek w/ Avery Moore

I Learned Nothing - May 25, 2018 09:20 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 157 ratings
Ben and Pat discuss Slavoj Žižek w/ Avery Moore.

An Evening with Slavoj Žižek

Intelligence Squared - May 04, 2017 23:05 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 690 ratings
Radical philosopher, polymath, film star, cult icon, and author of over 30 books, Slavoj Žižek is one of the most controversial and leading contemporary public intellectuals, simultaneously acclaimed as the ‘Elvis of cultural theory’ and denounced as ‘the most dangerous philosopher in the West’. ...

72. Slavoj Žižek (Philosopher) - Against Tolerance

Think Again – a Big Think Podcast - November 12, 2016 11:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 556 ratings
Since 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives. Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philo...

50: What Slavoj Žižek Would Say About Poker and the Peso

Odd Lots - October 14, 2016 20:50 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 614 ratings
What does psychoanalytic philosophy tell us about capitalism? In this edition of Odd Lots, we speak to Ole Bjerg, a professor at the Copenhagen Business School. Bjerg studies the work of Slavoj Žižek, a Slovenian philosopher, and also writes about matters of finance, markets and money. In this ep...