The Sublime Object of Ideology

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 * Zizek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative. * Guardian * Zizek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability. * Publishers Weekly * Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation * New Yorker *