Speaking at Cadogan Hall on Friday, the self-proclaimed “radical leftist” philosopher Slavoj Žižek gave a remarkably ebullient lecture on pessimism. The Marxist intellectual sought to convince his audience in Knightsbridge that “ideology is still alive and kicking” and that history has not ended.
The superstar messiah of the New Left
"Don't underestimate how far ideology has penetrated our daily lives," says Slavoj Žižek.