How the left misread Gramsci
We are living in the Italian Marxist thinker’s interregnum
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Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek is a philosopher, author, cultural theorist and intellectual. He currently holds academic positions at the University of London, New York University and University of Ljubljana. He has authored or co-authored over 50 books on subjects from politics to philosophy.
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Slavoj Žižek: Is something rotten in the state of Turkey?
A reply to my critics.
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Slavoj Žižek: We need to talk about Turkey
The so-called “war on terror” has become a clash within each civilisation, in which every side pretends to fight…
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Slavoj Žižek: Thanks to the EU’s villainy, Greece is now under financial occupation
A response to some of my critics.
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Slavoj Žižek on Greece: This is a chance for Europe to awaken
The Greeks are correct: Brussels’ denial that this is an ideological question is ideology at its purest – and symptomatic of…
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Slavoj Žižek: Why Heidegger should not be criminalised
The German philosopher’s Black Notebooks suggest he was anti-Semitic, but, says Slavoj Žižek, instead of his banning the work we should confront how a…
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Slavoj Žižek: A modest rejoinder
“Although I am far from a well-meaning liberal, I simply cannot recognise myself in the lunatic-destructive figure described by…
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Slavoj Žižek on the Charlie Hebdo massacre: Are the worst really full of passionate intensity?
How fragile the belief of an Islamist must be if he feels threatened by a stupid caricature in a…
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Slavoj Žižek: Only a radicalised left can save Europe
Austerity is not “too radical”, as some leftist critics claim, but, on the contrary, too superficial, an act of…
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