About the Author

Slavoj Zizek 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 sen-ior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Less Than Nothing, six volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more.

Reviews

a brilliant book ... . If Zizek is out of touch with contemporary philosophy, I am the bishop of Ulan Bator ... . Pedagogic clarity and a gift for entertainment are two of the many excellences.
*Radical Philosophy*

Slavoj Zizek, the Giant of Ljubljana, ... provides the best intellectual high since Anti-Oedipus
*Voice Literary Supplement*