Slovenian-born Slavoj Žižek (b. 1949) is one of world’s most famous, and controversial, philosophers and cultural theorists. Among his many positions in Europe and the United States he is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a professor at the European Graduate School, Switzerland. The author of several works, the latest being Living in the End Times (Verso), he is frequent contributor to The Guardian and the London Review of Books.