A specter is haunting Western thought, the specter of the Cartesian subject
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.
The Elvis of cultural theory.
*Chronicle of Higher Education*
The giant of Ljubljana provides the best intellectual high since
Anti-Oedipus.
*The Village Voice*
The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of
cultural theory in general, to have emerged in many decades.
*Terry Eagleton*
Unafraid of confrontation and with a near limitless grasp of pop
symbolism
*The Times*
Zizek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the
result is deeply interesting and provocative.
*Guardian*
Zizek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor
with compulsive readability.
*Publishers Weekly*
Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is
master of the counterintuitive observation
*New Yorker*
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