Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst and Communist philosopher. Born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1949, he earned doctorates at the University of Ljubljana and at Université Paris VIII. He is Senior Researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Visiting Professor at New York University, USA. Žižek’s work is known for its distinctive reading of Hegel through Lacanian theory, its materialist interpretation of Christianity, and its Communist critique of liberal democracy. He is the author of numerous books, including The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989), Less Than Nothing (2012), Lenin 2017: Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through (2017), The Courage of Hopelessness (2017), and Hegel in a Wired Brain (2020). The latest volume in his acclaimed essays series, Signs from the Future, will be published by Bloomsbury in October 2026.