Best of Slavoj Žižek | On cynicism, pleasure, philosophy, and more

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Watch 45 minutes of Žižek's best takes and perspectives over the last years on the occasion of the famous philosopher's 75th birthday.
From highlighting our need for hypocrisy and our tendencies towards cynicism, to railing against art Biennales and declaring his desire for passionate love, Žižek comments on the large and the small in his typical engaging and unapologetic style.
He is not afraid to ask any question about the human condition: what can quantum physics and video games tell us about how to live? Should we give in to pleasure or accept that it is unachievable? Does neuroscience dismantle the possibility for free will?
00:00 Introduction
00:56 Why do we live in a cynical age?
10:40 Do we need hypocrisy?
24:22 Are we capable of loving?
34:26 Is philosophy a false guide?
#zizek #philosophy #morality
Debates and talks featured:
Heaven in disorder (Hay, 2022)
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Moral facts and moral fantasy (Hay, 2022)
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Philosophy for cynical times (IAI Live,2020)
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The end of good and evil (Hay, 2023)
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The game of life (Hay, 2023)
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Nature friend or foe (Hay, 2022)
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Surplus happiness (Hay, 2023)
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How philosophy got lost (Hay, 2022)
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Liberty and the left (Hay, 2021)
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The life and philosophy of Slavoj Žižek (Hay, 2023)
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Fantasy and the void (Hay, 2021)
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КОМЕНТАРІ: 71

@TheInstituteOfArtAndIdeas Місяць тому

What do you think about Žižek's philosophy? Let us know in the comments below! To see an in-depth interview with Slavoj, visit iai.tv/video/the-life-and-philosophy-of-slavoj-zizek?UKposts&+comment&

@farrider3339 Місяць тому

Thanks I tried. Let me just mention, as birthday gift also to his fan(atic)s you could have let run for free 😕

@brankopetrovski9271 Місяць тому

Did he ever visited a psihiatar?

@pnf197 Місяць тому

Happy Birthday Zizek, but likely you don't celebrate your own historical self! You are sir, the most entertaining and informative philosopher of our times. Thank you for broadening my own thoughts and feelings....

@bishalkashyap6420 Місяць тому

So versatile. So charming. So dirty. Happy Birthday Zizek.

@morontracker9803 Місяць тому

Love your comment.

@exailmle Місяць тому

I feel like my mind has been fed, but with something that it must chew for a long time. Very enjoyable, so many ideas.

@coltonhenry3636 Місяць тому

I love that!

@microbe_rz31 Місяць тому

You cannot solve problems with the mind, when it is the mind that has created the problems. Your mind is a weapon, that is all. Some have a license to kill, most do not.

@sr-gc6vh Місяць тому

It's mostly garbage.

@exailmle Місяць тому

@@sr-gc6vh gee thanks for letting me know. I am lucky you did, or I would still be unenlightened.

@dragantodoric7423 3 години тому

Oh, beautiful. Thank you.

@AlexanderVerney-Elliott-ep7dw Місяць тому

Slavoj Žižek is a genius-thinker; and years ahead of all thinker-philsophers today.... Slavoj Žižek actually thinks.... which is so extremely rare today....

@sedeslav Місяць тому

Sretan rođendan, profesore! :)

@almanahulzilnicdesuceava5379 Місяць тому

Happy birthday!!!

@martincano3220 Місяць тому

The video’s unexpected start took me by surprise 😂😂, but then again, what else could I expect from the enigmatic Slavoj Žižek? 🎉🎂 Happy birthday to the man who fearlessly dives into uncharted intellectual waters! May his philosophical musings continue to provoke and inspire us all! 📚🌟🎈

@DimitarBerberu Місяць тому

The best mind engaging philosopher. Thanks Slavoj. Sorry I didn't discover you while I was in the holistic beautiful Yugoslavia & I am also non-conformist

@greyshadow6576 Місяць тому

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

@daddy9587 Місяць тому

Happy birthday Slavoj, alles gute zum Geburtstag 🎉

@maxheadrom3088 Місяць тому

The woman in "Day by Night" was Jaqueline Bisset who played the main actress in the film that's being made.

@starofsiam1 Місяць тому

I found you via Jordan Peterson. Love you both. Don’t stop blasting out your light man🙏

@lateefriaz2907 Місяць тому

Happy birthday guru ❤

@valariemgutierrexa.k.a.map6085 Місяць тому

Happy belated Birthday wishes, Zee! May the Universe "Phil" the day with Y0R heart's highest desire! 🍎 Apple for the teacher! 🍎

@dragonfly_00 Місяць тому

💚

@HenryCasillas Місяць тому

🌻

@isa-manuelaalbrecht2951 Місяць тому

Better to use sarcasme if nothing helps out of bad situation..thank you dearle,you often made and saved my day...🎉🤩😏🤭🤗😘

@isa-manuelaalbrecht2951 Місяць тому

Freedom ist the awareness of our conditioneerings..never trust people that try to sell ya any kinds of ideoligies..masked in...with...😏🧐

@farrider3339 Місяць тому

A very nice compilation of Slavoy The Hurricane Zizek. One thing for me is a bit frustrating. Namely, in his talks he never goes to the end, when it comes to Trans- and Identity politics. Quote Zizek : "The problem of identity politics (...) it presupposes, that identies exist. I don't think they exist." There are quite some open words needed here, especially when we look at misery caused by the fixation on the benefits identity is supposed to bring. Compensatory Fetishism is just one terms here demanding a closer look. Sorry, I talk too much ;)

@geoffreynhill2833 Місяць тому

Tinkly Music Alert !!!

@user-ik8ve6zu6s Місяць тому

سالگرہ مبارک ❤congratulations, in urdu language of Pakistan

@CaptainSamuelVimesBootsTheory Місяць тому

Happy bird day my love

@reginaerekson9139 Місяць тому

21:49 if it looks “not good” that is the only language non entities have to pray to you for mercy. Try to diagnose the situation, the root of the problem and see what can be done to resolve right mind, right heart and right life.

@PeterFerenczy Місяць тому

23:29 classic Zizek moment

@geoffreydawson5430 Місяць тому

And what will be our next homage to Auguste Comte? But I do enjoy Slavoj's enthusiasm. For myself will not connect with any social form, only forced. No matter the politics.

@FG-fc1yz 23 дні тому

auch zur MA: 41:25 Bsp. zur Negativität (der formalen An-Zeige des Mangels) Wie das konkrete Phänomen wahrgenommen wird ist immer auch das Produkt der möglichen Interpretationen des Phänomens, die sich in der Wahrnehmung und im Verhalten konkretisieren konnten (z.B Interpr. der Österreichischen Schule) 43:02 Prozess ist blind und radikal offen, ontologisch nicht ideell konstituiert: keine objektiven Prozesse, Gesetze

@rafaelvalseca551 18 днів тому

Teo faces just one lord,"In Gold We Trust!

@akai.christo Місяць тому

Thank you so much for such clear, direct and helpful talks. I like when he mentioned about the Opium War which is something people that will like to understand what's going on in the world's macro economics board, must study to understand the present. Worked for 15 years with Coca plant lecturing tourists from all over the world about how Peru's cocaine cartels begun, of course always started explaining The Opium War, when all cartel system begun. Personally I respect and admire the way how China emerged and most of all emulated and perfect what the West created. The way China saved, multiplied and invested the money is amazingly intelligent. Something important to mention is that while West expanded and expands imposing and exploiting, China does it by giving before taking. Most citizens of the world were born, raised and live in a community somewhere in an island, in the mountains or jungle, and thats why it is easier for China to expand and invest anywhere on Earth, it doesn't mean that indigenous or native community people are communists, it only means that they are aware of others, something Capitalism's egoism lacks.

@maxheadrom3088 Місяць тому

I started reading Karl Popper's "The Open Society And Its Enemies" and I learned that Popper considered metaphysical knowledge to play an important part in human societies. The Austrian philosopher argues that with the end of religion, sciences - particularly human sciences - have substituted gods with oversimplified explanations like "Hitler caused WWII". The faith people have in that statement causes us to easily accpept infanticide as a solution when we're asked the famous time machine/kill baby hitler question. People think that going to the past an killing a baby will result in no WWII because we have been told the oversimplified history. Another effect, Popper argues, of such oversimplification is how easily we don't consider nor inquire into the unintended results of our actions and of random events. Now we're facing a global crisis that most likely will cause the end of human life on earth - climate change - and for some reason those who try a deeper and more complex analysis of the two ongoing military conflicts are quickly labeled "appeasers", "fascists", "anti-semite" or "terrorist".

@DJWESG1 Місяць тому

Risk society coming through strong here.

@qftkn591 Місяць тому

I find your line of thinking graciously swift yet the silver lining is still flickering. There is a demographic that does not reside in the philosophy of nature, as in the example of trees and animals, of their inanimateness as serving stepping stones into what could be called an overthrow of physiology/mirage without necessecarily valuing their natural ability to territorialize consciousness even if exclusively empirically. Happy Birthday, may the dragon grant you passage. 🎉

@alex79suited Місяць тому

Ever see that Van Halen video, where roth is being brought out in a towel and handcuffs? Oh, happy birthday, Zizec. Peace ✌️ 😎. Lol

@gecorp Місяць тому

Slavoj=Voltaire...you never will know if he is a genius or just a nice guy talking...and it is in the midst of that dissidence where their messages gain significance.

@CrazyLinguiniLegs Місяць тому

17:05 does Destiny not have a sense of humor? Does he not like Žižek?

@korpen2858 Місяць тому

It looks like he's bringing out his inner self 😂

@CrazyLinguiniLegs Місяць тому

@@korpen2858 😂

@reginaerekson9139 Місяць тому

31:40 I’m still trying to understand polyamory myself- is sociopath lite? You use agents to satisfy your own needs but those agents are sometimes cooperative even though they don’t want to. Because women have been degraded and have to be lucky for scraps like dogs.

@amondocs3061 19 днів тому

Missed opportunity not calling this video "On cynicism, pleasure, philosophy, and so on."

@SpaceDolphinPosadist Місяць тому

🐬🫶🏼💚

@juricadogan3870 Місяць тому

Lately I've been having more respect for doers than for thinkers.

@DJWESG1 Місяць тому

That's because you've read jung?

@elbisreverband Місяць тому

Thinking is also doing

@themos3s Місяць тому

@@elbisreverband bingo

@andrewa3103 Місяць тому

I never understand what he is.talking about. Metaphysician Philosopher

@bennaarsongidi9269 Місяць тому

This is a travesty of a channel nowadays full of controversial topics that have no consequence

@spindoctor6385 Місяць тому

Load of hypocritical fluff.

@tomangochapati Місяць тому

Why hypocritical? I don't get it.

@MasterK-hv4ws Місяць тому

Slavoj Zizek is a clown

@farrider3339 Місяць тому

You have to be one, to recognise one 😊

@MasterK-hv4ws Місяць тому

@@farrider3339 that makes no sense

@cameronsmith8775 Місяць тому

Sure he is a clown, and only the court jester can criticize the king (I know it’s cliche). If you don’t understand his arguments you don’t also have to disregard him entirely. You can either argue against him or keep your ignorant opinion to yourself.

@sr-gc6vh Місяць тому

What are his arguments? He mostly makes incoherent comments, that sound smart but really lack any substance.

@user-nb3mq3cg8k Місяць тому

@@sr-gc6vh what is substance? And what incoherent comments?