From the Publisher
The Elvis of cultural theory.”—Chronicle of Higher Education
“The giant of Ljubljana provides the best intellectual high since Anti-Oedipus.”—The Village Voice
“The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged in many decades.”—Terry Eagleton
“Unafraid of confrontation and with a near limitless grasp of pop symbolism”—The Times
“Žižek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative.”—Guardian
“Žižek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability.”—Publishers Weekly
“Žižek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation”—New Yorker
