Pocket Pantheon is an invitation to engage with the greats of postwar Western thought, such as Lacan, Sartre and Foucault, in the company of one of today’s leading political and philosophical minds. Alain Badiou draws on his encounters with this pantheon – his teachers, opponents and allies – to offer unique insights into both the authors and their work. These studies form an accessible, authoritative distillation of continental theory and a capsule history of a period in Western thought.
“A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!”—Slavoj Žižek
“One of the most important philosophers writing today.”—Joan Copjec
“An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser.”—New Statesman
Pocket Pantheon is an invitation to engage with the greats of postwar Western thought, such as Lacan, Sartre and Foucault, in the company of one of today’s leading political and philosophical minds. Alain Badiou draws on his encounters with this pantheon – his teachers, opponents and allies – to offer unique insights into both the authors and their work. These studies form an accessible, authoritative distillation of continental theory and a capsule history of a period in Western thought.
Praise
“A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!”—Slavoj Žižek
“One of the most important philosophers writing today.”—Joan Copjec
“An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser.”—New Statesman
