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Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and political activist. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, and Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University. He is the author of numerous books on dialectical materialism, as well as critique of ideology and art, including Event, and Trouble in Paradise, both published by Melville House. — biography from Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours… (more)