Zizek’s visit is organised by the Department for Social Critique, a group of social scholars who publish an Albanian-language magazine called “Critique and Society.”

Agon Hamza, co-founder of the Department for Social Critique, rated Zizek as one of the “most important living philosophers”. “I believe his lectures will spark a debate and will lead to a different perspective of our existing socio-political life,” Hamza told Balkan Insight.

Zizek, who is widely regarded as a fiery and colourful scholar never reluctant to make controversial remarks, is seen as a Marxist philosopher and is one of the “most wanted” contemporary lecturers.

Described by other scholars as the “most formidably brilliant” recent theorist to have emerged from Europe, Zizek’s work is infamously idiosyncratic. His work includes striking dialectical reversals of received common sense, and sheds an alternative view on social and political events.