The Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek was born in Ljubljana in 1949. Wildly prolific, with a love of provocation, he has published more than 50 books and hundreds of essays and articles on a wide variety of subjects from Lacanian psychoanalysis to Hollywood to Covid-19. Žižek is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London. He has two sons and lives in Ljubljana with his fourth wife, the writer Jela Krečič. In his latest book, Freedom: A Disease Without Cure, published by Bloomsbury, he argues that the concept of freedom is less concrete than we would like to believe.
