There is no doubt that the irruption and consolidation of Z? Iz ?? ek in the global intellectual field is deeply anomalous: from a relative marginality, Z? Iz ?? ek is now entrenched in the pre-eminent position they occupied before He philosophers like Derrida, Rorty, Sloterdijk or Habermas, of course, but who, from a theoretical point of view, is this performer, this intervener who operates on the contemporary intellectual landscape?