A shortened cut of a paper presentation on Kant, as appearing in ‘Alien, Marx & Co. — Slavoj Žižek, Ein Porträt’, a German 2010 cultural documentary by Susan Chales de Beaulieu and JeanBaptiste Farkas.

Slavoj Žižek is a Philosopher and Psychoanalytic social theorist. He is Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana; Professor at the School of Law and Director of the Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London; Distinguished Scholar at the Kyung Hee University, Seoul; and Visiting Professor at the German Department, New York University. His field of work comprises Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, dialecticalmaterialist metaphysical interpretations of German Idealism and Marxian critique of ideology. His more than sixty books in English have been widely translated. His latest publications include 'Pandemic!' & 'Pandemic! 2', 'Hegel in a Wired Brain', 'Sex and the Failed Absolute', 'Like A Thief In Broad Daylight', 'Reading Marx', 'Incontinence of the Void', 'The Day After the Revolution', 'Heaven in Disorder' and 'Reading Hegel'.