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Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy (Pocket Communism)

Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy (Pocket Communism)

by Alain Badiou (Author)

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    Hardcover 2009

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Synopsis

Pocket Pantheon is an invitation to engage with the greats of Western postwar though, 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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 196
 Publisher: Verso
Published: 15 Jul 2009
ISBN 10: 184467357X
ISBN 13: 9781844673575

Media Reviews
One of the most important philosophers writing today. Joan Copjec Scarcely any other moral thinker of our day is as politically clear-sighted and courageously polemical, so prepared to put notions of truth and universality back on the agenda. Terry Eagleton The lesson of the book is: remain faithful to the twentieth century. The Century is not the best' book of the last decade, it is simply the book of the last decade! Read it with the proper tremor, aware that you are reading a classic, that a figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us! Slavoj Zizek Badiou's sardonically compressed style is never less than pungent. Steve Poole, The Guardian
Author Bio
Alain Badiou is the author of Being and Event, Ethics, Metapolitics, Polemics, Infinite Thought and Handbook of Inaesthetics. He teaches philosophy at the Ecole Normale Superieure.