Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek is a philosopher, author, cultural theorist and intellectual. He currently holds academic positions at New York University, the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London. He has authored or co-authored over 50 books on subjects from politics to philosophy. In his upcoming  Liberal Fascisms (April, Bloomsbury) he explores the paradoxical nature of political populism. Foreign Policy magazine named Žižek one of its 2012 Top 100 Global Thinkers "for giving voice to an era of absurdity."