Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek, born in 1949, is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. He is Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, professor of philosophy and psychoanalysis at the European Graduate School and a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana. He works mainly on continental philosophy, particularly Hegelianism, Lacanian psychoanalysis and Marxism, and on political theory and film criticism. His books include Living in the End Times, published in 2010, and Pandemic!, published in 2020.