"Hegemony and Socialist Strategy" was greeted with positive reviews and has become a reference point in its field; for example, Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek cited "Hegemony and Socialist Strategy" as a work having influenced his book, "The Sublime Object of Ideology". Furthermore, its resolutely "post-Marxist" self-definition marks it as one of the first major texts associated with this disciplinary development. A new edition was published in 2001, which included a preface by the authors in which they reaffirmed their commitment to the arguments made in 1985.