Slavoj Žižek

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He works on a wide range of topics including psychoanalysis, Hegel, cinema, political theory, and current events.