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Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist, and public intellectual.
* He is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana's Department of Philosophy.
* He primarily works on continental philosophy (particularly Hegelianism, psychoanalysis and Marxism) and political theory, as well as film criticism and theology.
* Žižek is the most famous associate of the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis, a group of Slovenian academics working on German idealism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, ideology critique, and media criticism.
* His breakthrough work was 1989's The Sublime Object of Ideology, his first book in English, which was decisive in the introduction of the Ljubljana School's thought to English-speaking audiences.
* He has written over 50 books in multiple languages.
* Žižek is known for his provocative and often controversial style, which has made him a popular figure in the Western intellectual left.
* He is also a frequent commentator on current events, and his work has been praised by some for its insights into the political and cultural landscape of the 21st century.
* However, Žižek has also been criticized for his lack of clarity and his tendency to oversimplify complex issues.