Žižek Responds!Responses to the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj iek have been, like iek himself, extreme. Critics have accused him of charlatanism on the one hand, while others have lauded his genius, especially as a public intellectual, on the other. This makes it difficult to find any kind of nuanced or interesting critical appraisal of his work. At its best, iek's work provides a new foundation of dialectical philosophy, beyond the glitz of stardom or oversimplified