Amazing Philospher

http://www.kqed.org/radio/programs/index.jsp?pgmid=RD13

Slavoj iek
Slavoj iek -- The program begins its new season with guest Slavoj iek, senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. iek has been a visiting professor at Columbia University, Princeton, and The New School. Arguably the only living philosopher who uses popular culture to explain the theory of Jacques Lacan and the theory of Lacan to explain popular culture, his work is both eccentric and deeply thoughtful and has garnered him a large following internationally. A philosopher, psychoanalyst, film buff, amateur theologian and political analyst, iek is the author of more than 30 books which cover a range of topics from the expected (Kant and Heidegger), to the politically charged (Abu Ghraib), to the wholly unexpected (M. Night Shyamalan's commercial failure The Village).

Tue, Oct 7, 2008 -- 8:00 pm email reminder