Salvoj Zizek
Listen to a lecture by Salvoj Zizek, the prolific, controversial, and world-renowned Lacanian theorist and philosopher critic, delivered to a standing-room-only crowd on Nov. 3 at Vanderbilt's Stevenson Center lecture hall. The audio recording includes an introduction by Paul DeHart, associate professor of theology in the Graduate Department of Religion.
Zizek is a faculty member at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His publications include: "On Belief" (2001) , "The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?" (2001), "Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?: Five Interventions in the (Mis)use of a Notion" (2001); "The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime : On David Lynch's Lost Highway" (2000); and "The Sublime Object of Ideology" ( 1997).
The event was sponsored by Vanderbilt Divinity School, Center for the Study of Religion and Culture, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Department of Religious Studies and the Department of English.
Contact: Jim Patterson (615) 322-NEWS
jim.patterson@vanderbilt.edu
