Editing Slavoj Žižek (section)

===Academic career===
During the 1980s, Žižek edited and translated [[Jacques Lacan]], [[Sigmund Freud]], and [[Louis Althusser]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dskp-drustvo.si/prevajalci.php |title=Prevajalci&nbsp;– Društvo slovenskih književnih prevajalcev |publisher=Dskp-drustvo.si |access-date=7 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120105042135/http://www.dskp-drustvo.si/prevajalci.php |archive-date=5 January 2012}}</ref> He used Lacan's work to interpret [[Hegelianism|Hegelian]] and Marxist philosophy.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}}

In 1986, Žižek completed a second doctorate ([[Doctor of Philosophy]] in [[psychoanalysis]]) at the [[University of Paris VIII]] under [[Jacques-Alain Miller]], entitled "La philosophie entre le symptôme et le fantasme".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Žižek |first1=Slavoj |title=Le plus sublime des hystériques |date=1988 |publisher=Distribution, Distique. |location=Paris |page=10 | language=fr}}</ref>

Žižek wrote the introduction to Slovene translations of [[G. K. Chesterton]]'s and [[John le Carré]]'s detective novels.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TsDgpEkMGdcC&pg=PA10 |title=Zizek: A Guide for the Perplexed|author=Sean Sheehan|publisher=[[Continuum International Publishing Group]] |page=10|year=2012|isbn=978-1441180872}}</ref>
In 1988, he published his first book dedicated entirely to [[film theory]], ''Pogled s strani''.<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/440170467 Pogled s strani at worldcat.org]</ref> The following year, he achieved international recognition as a [[Social theory|social theorist]] with the 1989 publication of his first book in English, ''The Sublime Object of Ideology''.<ref name="Britannica">{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/biography/Slavoj-Zizek|title=Slavoj Zizek - Slovene philosopher and cultural theorist|date=29 April 2023|access-date=27 September 2015|archive-date=16 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220316200721/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Slavoj-Zizek|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="iep.utm.edu">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Slavoj Žižek |first=Matthew |last=Sharpe |encyclopedia=The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy |issn=2161-0002 |url=http://www.iep.utm.edu/zizek/ |access-date=27 September 2015 |archive-date=22 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220622083116/http://www.iep.utm.edu/zizek/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Žižek has been publishing in journals such as ''[[Lacanian Ink]]'' and ''[[In These Times (publication)|In These Times]]'' in the United States, the ''[[New Left Review]]'' and ''[[The London Review of Books]]'' in the United Kingdom, and with the Slovenian [[left-liberal]] magazine ''[[Mladina]]'' and newspapers ''[[Dnevnik (Slovenia)|Dnevnik]]'' and ''[[Delo (newspaper)|Delo]]''. He also cooperates with the Polish leftist magazine ''[[Krytyka Polityczna]]'', regional southeast European left-wing journal ''[[Novi Plamen]]'', and serves on the editorial board of the psychoanalytical journal ''Problemi''.<ref name="Editorial Staff - Problemi International">{{cite web |url=https://problemi.si/editorial-staff/ |title=Editorial Staff - Problemi International |access-date=25 October 2021 |archive-date=25 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025164847/https://problemi.si/editorial-staff/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Žižek is a series editor of the [[Northwestern University Press]] series Diaeresis that publishes works that "deal not only with philosophy, but also will intervene at the levels of ideology critique, politics, and art theory".<ref>{{cite web|title=Diaeresis series page|url=http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/diaeresis|website=Northwestern University Press|access-date=28 January 2017|archive-date=2 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202051054/http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/diaeresis|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2012, ''[[Foreign Policy]]'' listed Žižek on its list of Top 100 Global Thinkers, calling him "a celebrity philosopher",<ref name="The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers">{{cite web |date=26 November 2012 |title=The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/26/the_fp_100_global_thinkers?page=0,55 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121130221322/http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/26/the_fp_100_global_thinkers?page=0,33 |archive-date=30 November 2012 |access-date=28 November 2012 |work=Foreign Policy |df=dmy-all}}</ref> while elsewhere he has been dubbed the "[[Elvis Presley|Elvis]] of cultural theory"<ref name="Zizek Journal">{{cite web |title=International Journal of Žižek Studies, home page |url=http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/ijzs/index |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180103211107/http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/IJZS/index |archive-date=3 January 2018 |access-date=27 December 2011}}</ref> and "the most dangerous philosopher in the [[western world|West]]".<ref>{{cite web |date=4 October 2013 |title=Slavoj Zizek - VICE - United Kingdom |work=VICE |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/slavoj-zizek/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304084757/http://www.vice.com/en_uk/video/slavoj-zizek |archive-date=4 March 2016 |access-date=11 September 2017}}</ref> Žižek has been called "the leading Hegelian of our time",<ref>{{cite web |last1=Şahin |first1=Tuna |date=27 December 2021 |title=Slavoj Žižek: The Hegelian of Our Time |url=https://www.thenaszone.com/post/slavoj-%C5%BEi%C5%BEek-the-hegelian-of-our-time |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220907031913/https://www.thenaszone.com/post/slavoj-%C5%BEi%C5%BEek-the-hegelian-of-our-time |archive-date=7 September 2022 |access-date=4 May 2022}}</ref> and "the foremost exponent of Lacanian theory".<ref>McGowan, Todd (2013). "Hegel as Marxist: Žižek's Revision of German Idealism." In ''Žižek Now: Current Perspectives in Žižek Studies''. Cambridge: Polity Press. p. 42.</ref> A journal, the ''International Journal of Žižek Studies'', was founded by professors David J. Gunkel and Paul A. Taylor to engage with his work.<ref>{{cite web |title=About the Journal |url=http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/IJZS/about/editorialPolicies#focusAndScope |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220620134909/http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/IJZS/about/editorialPolicies#focusAndScope |archive-date=20 June 2022 |access-date=1 May 2019}}</ref>