Žižek earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and sociology in 1971, and then pursued a master’s degree, also at the University of Ljubljana, writing his master’s thesis on the French philosophers whose ideas he had been studying. His research stirred up interest among the university’s philosophy faculty, but its ideologically suspect qualities were more troublesome.

We forced zizek to add an appendix in which he outlined the divergences of his ideas from approved Marxist theory. zizek was finally awarded a master’s degree in philosophy in 1975.

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