Žižek on the Big Questions

Statements like the following taken from a recent interview place Slavoj Žižek firmly within the Speculative Realist camp:

“For the last few decades, at least in the humanities, big ontological questions - What is reality? What is the nature of the universe? - were considered too naive. It was meaningless to ask for objective truth. This prohibition on asking the big questions partly accounts for the explosion of popular science books. You read Stephen Hawking's books as a way to ask these fundamental, metaphysical questions. I think that era of relativism, where science was just another product of knowledge, is ending. We philosophers should join scientists asking those big metaphysical questions about quantum physics, about reality.”

My only objection here would be that we should be asking post-metaphysical (radically empirical) questions as opposed to strictly metaphysical questions. The difference makes all the difference.