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