"Few thinkers illustrate the contradictions of contemporary capitalism better than Slavoj Zizek." -John Gray, New York Review of Books
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 senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Less Than Nothing, The Year of Dreaming Dangerously, Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, six volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more.
Few thinkers illustrate the contradictions of contemporary
capitalism better than Slavoj Zizek ... one of the world's
best-known public intellectuals.
*New York Review of Books*
A gifted speaker - tumultuous, emphatic, direct - and he writes as
he speaks.
*Guardian*
A serious attempt to reanimate or re-actualize Hegel.
*Robert Pippin, author of Hegel's Idealism, on Less Than
Nothing*
Like Socrates on steroids: Zizek is breathtakingly perceptive.
*Terry Eagleton*
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