Slavoj Žižek
Slovenian-born Slavoj Žižek (b. 1949) is one of world’s most famous, and controversial, philosophers and cultural theorists. Among his many positions in Europe and the United States he is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a professor at the European Graduate School, Switzerland. The author of several works, the latest being Living in the End Times (Verso), he is frequent contributor to The Guardian and the London Review of Books.
Updated: 4 February 2011
The spirit of dictators like Nicolae Ceauşescu is finding new life in the response of the European elite to the eurozone crisis, says Slovenian thinker Slavoj Žižek. The same distrust of democracy that once constrained the developing or the post-communist countries is now gaining ground in Europe. 
In the June 17 Greek elections, the electorate is likely to reject those political parties too close to the technocrats and financial bodies that preach austerity and that, many fear, are supplanting democracy. This is why the Greek people must be supported, argues philosopher Slavoj Žižek. 
Let's break the deadlock between anaemic liberals and xenophobic extremists to give Europe new meaning and purpose, argues Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek.