Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek, born on March 21, 1949, is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist, and intellectual.
He was the international director of Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, at the University of London; he is a professor of German at New York University, and a professor of philosophy and psychoanalysis at European Graduate School and senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology and Philosophy, University of Ljubljana.
His work focuses primarily on philosophy — particularly Hegelianism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism — and political theory, as well as film criticism and theology.
He has written more than 50 books in various languages ​​and speaks Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, English, German, and French. The idiosyncratic style of his public appearances, frequent opinion pieces in magazines, and his academic work—characterized by the use of dark humor and examples from popular culture, as well as politically incorrect provocations—have brought him fame, controversy, and criticism, both inside and outside academia.