«آيا پوپوليسم آناندازه كه ميگويند بد است؟ آيا ميتوان در زمينه و بافتي گستردهتر و به دور از سادهسازيهاي سياسي، رسالتي رهاييبخش براي آن متصور بود؟ «مردم» در اين ميان دقيقا به چه معناست؟ آيا نظرية سياسي لاكلائو، كه متاثر از تصلب وضعيت موجود است، رهيافتي بديع است و ميتواند براي بحران كنوني راه چارهاي دست و پا كند». نگارنده در كتاب حاضر تلاش ميكند به اين سئوالات پاسخ دهد؛ سئوالاتي كه برآمده از نظريات ارنستو لاكلائو و نقد آنها از سوي ژيژك، دو نظريهپرداز بزرگ چپ هستند. در واقع اين كتاب حاصل گفتوگوي اين دو نفر دربارة عقايد لاكلائو و كتاب «عقل پوپوليستي» اوست، كه از طرف ژيژك متهم به تناقضگويي شده است. مقالة اول اثر حاضر، چكيدهاي از نظرية «پوپوليسم» به قلم خود لاكلائو است.
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovene sociologist, philosopher, and cultural critic.
He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of SFR Yugoslavia). He received a Doctor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Ljubljana and studied psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII with Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault. In 1990 he was a candidate with the party Liberal Democracy of Slovenia for Presidency of the Republic of Slovenia (an auxiliary institution, abolished in 1992).
Since 2005, Žižek has been a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Žižek is well known for his use of the works of 20th century French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan in a new reading of popular culture. He writes on many topics including the Iraq War, fundamentalism, capitalism, tolerance, political correctness, globalization, subjectivity, human rights, Lenin, myth, cyberspace, postmodernism, multiculturalism, post-marxism, David Lynch, and Alfred Hitchcock.
In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País he jokingly described himself as an "orthodox Lacanian Stalinist". In an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! he described himself as a "Marxist" and a "Communist."