Slavoj Žižek: We Need Thinking | Big Think

Slavoj Žižek: We Need Thinking New videos DAILY: Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slavoj Zizek answers the question, “Do you think science has replaced philosophy in discovering the bigger questions of life?“ Philosophy is not dying, he says -- in fact, we need it more now than ever. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK: Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Ca