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

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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[@TheInstituteOfArtAndIdeas]

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?KZbin&+comment&

[@farrider3339]

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

[@brankopetrovski9271]

Did he ever visited a psihiatar?

[@pnf197]

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]

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

[@morontracker9803]

Love your comment.

[@exailmle]

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]

I love that!

[@microbe_rz31]

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]

It's mostly garbage.

[@exailmle]

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

[@sedeslav]

Sretan rođendan, profesore! :)

[@AlexanderVerney-Elliott-ep7dw]

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

[@martincano3220]

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! 📚🌟🎈

[@almanahulzilnicdesuceava5379]

Happy birthday!!!

[@maxheadrom3088]

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

[@DimitarBerberu]

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

[@daddy9587]

Happy birthday Slavoj, alles gute zum Geburtstag 🎉

[@greyshadow6576]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

[@starofsiam1]

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

[@lateefriaz2907]

Happy birthday guru ❤

[@dragonfly_00]

💚

[@isa-manuelaalbrecht2951]

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

[@isa-manuelaalbrecht2951]

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

[@valariemgutierrexa.k.a.map6085]

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

[@HenryCasillas]

🌻

[@farrider3339]

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]

Tinkly Music Alert !!!

[@user-ik8ve6zu6s]

سالگرہ مبارک ❤congratulations, in urdu language of Pakistan

[@CaptainSamuelVimesBootsTheory]

Happy bird day my love

[@PeterFerenczy]

23:29 classic Zizek moment

[@reginaerekson9139]

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.

[@geoffreydawson5430]

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.

[@rafaelvalseca551]

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

[@FG-fc1yz]

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

[@alex79suited]

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

[@DJWESG1]

Risk society coming through strong here.

[@akai.christo]

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]

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".

[@qftkn591]

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. 🎉

[@CrazyLinguiniLegs]

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

[@korpen2858]

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

[@CrazyLinguiniLegs]

@@korpen2858 😂

[@reginaerekson9139]

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.

[@gecorp]

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.

[@amondocs3061]

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

[@SpaceDolphinPosadist]

🐬🫶🏼💚

[@juricadogan3870]

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

[@DJWESG1]

That's because you've read jung?

[@elbisreverband]

Thinking is also doing

[@themos3s]

@@elbisreverband bingo

[@andrewa3103]

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

[@bennaarsongidi9269]

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

[@spindoctor6385]

Load of hypocritical fluff.

[@tomangochapati]

Why hypocritical? I don't get it.

[@MasterK-hv4ws]

Slavoj Zizek is a clown

[@farrider3339]

You have to be one, to recognise one 😊

[@MasterK-hv4ws]

@@farrider3339 that makes no sense

[@cameronsmith8775]

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]

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

[@user-nb3mq3cg8k]

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

[@edga7999]

Žižek, you are an iguanodon🦖.😄 Zip it. 🤐