FTIS of UT Held the Colloquium of “Beyond Academic Philosophy” with Slavoj Žižek

On June 17, FTIS of UT hosted Slavoj Žižek, a distinguished Slovenian philosopher, researcher at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Arts, and international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities of the University of London. He is also Global Eminent Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul and Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University. He works in subjects including continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, political theory, cultural studies, art criticism, film criticism, Marxism, Hegelianism and theology.

In the FTIS colloquium, focusing on Maftouni’s approach to traditional Islamic philosophy, Žižek said to her: “You are not hidden from me and I love your work, your readings; the way you approach to Iranian tradition. It may surprise you.” Slavoj added: “Here now I come with what the work of Nadia Maftouni means to me. In her dealings of imagination, she goes and she demonstrates that already ancient Islamic philosophy went this way. She goes beyond Aristotle.”