The renowned philosopher finds a utopian future in worldwide protests
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.
Such passion, in a man whose work forms a bridge between the
minutiae of popular culture and the big abstract problems of
existence, is invigorating, entertaining and expanding inquiring
minds around the world.
*Daily Telegraph*
A great provocateur and an immensely suggestive and even dashing
writer ... Zizek writes with passion and an aphoristic energy that
is spellbinding.
*Los Angeles Times*
The thinker of choice for Europe's young intellectual vanguard.
*Observer*
Zizek's ingenious handling of culture, films, philosophy,
intellectual history, personal stories, daily politics, combined
with a politically incorrect wit (especially in his lectures) is
truly enjoyable. This at times overwhelming combination of ideas
remains unmatched in the contemporary intellectual scene.
*Marx and Philosophy Review of Books*
[Zizek highlights] exciting trends in class-organization, political
consciousness, cooperation, and struggle ... [and] frames various
victories as 'signs from the future' so the necessity of inner
subjective engagement with social struggle becomes clear.
*Book News*
His ability to fuse together Martin Heidegger's 'fundamental
ontology,' Francis Fukuyama's 'end of history' and Naomi Klein's
'shock doctrine' in order to undermine our liberal and tolerant
democratic structures is a practice few intellectuals are capable
of.
*Al Jazeera*
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