Žižek was born in Ljubljana, PR Slovenia, Yugoslavia, into a middle-class family. A journal, the International Journal of Žižek Studies, was founded by professors David J. Žižek has been called "the leading Hegelian of our time", and "the foremost exponent of Lacanian theory".
In 2012, Foreign Policy listed Žižek on its list of Top 100 Global Thinkers, calling him "a celebrity philosopher", while elsewhere he has been dubbed the " Elvis of cultural theory" and "the most dangerous philosopher in the West". The idiosyncratic style of his public appearances, frequent magazine op-eds, and academic works, characterised by the use of obscene jokes and pop cultural examples, as well as politically incorrect provocations, have gained him fame, controversy and criticism both in and outside academia. He has written over 50 books in multiple languages. 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. 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. He primarily works on continental philosophy (particularly Hegelianism, psychoanalysis and Marxism) and political theory, as well as film criticism and theology. He is 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. Slavoj Žižek ( / ˈ s l ɑː v ɔɪ ˈ ʒ iː ʒ ɛ k/ ( listen) SLAH-voy ZHEE-zhek, Slovene: born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual.
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