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Slavoj Žižek has been called, amongst other things, the “Elvis of cultural theory”, the “Foucault of Our Time” (Wallace 1998) and listed as one of Foreign Policy magazine’s Top 100 Global Thinkers. His rise to fame began as an active Slovenian ‘leftist’ during the 1980s, but his crown was firmly secured with the publication of The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) along with prolific writing and media attention. Today, armed with the same Marxist commitments and animated, unorthodox flair, he continues to attract major acclaim and criticism from across the globe. It is not surprising that, so the story goes, that tickets to a Žižek gig sold out faster than a Michael Jackson gig in London.
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Wall, T., Perrin, D. (2015). Introduction. In: Slavoj Žižek. SpringerBriefs in Education(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21242-5_1
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