Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy [Paperback]

Pocket Pantheonis 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.“Badiou’s sardonically compressed style is never less than pungent.”
—Guardian

“Badiou and his ‘pantheon’ remind us that a relevant as well as rigorous philosophy remains attainable, not to mention urgently needed.”
—Times Higher Education

Prasie for Alain Badiou:

“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 StatesmanAlain Badiouteaches philosophy at the École normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, includingTheory of the Subject,Being and Event,Manifesto for Philosophy, andGilles Deleuze. His recent books includeThe Meaning of Sarkozy,Ethics,Metapolitics,Polemics,The Communist Hypothesis,Five Lessons on Wagner, andWittgenstein’s Anti-Philosophy.

David Maceytranslated some twenty books from French to English. He was the author ofLacan in Context, the acclaimedThe Lives of Michel Foucault,The Penguin Dictionalƒ)