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Zusatztext “A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!”—Slavoj ?i?ek “One of the most important philosophers writing today.”—Joan Copjec “An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser.”— New Statesman Informationen zum Autor Alain Badiou, illustrated by AP Klappentext In this pint-sized collection of essays, Alain Badiou takes the reader through a keen yet poignant journey through the pantheon of late twentieth-century philosophy. Through the course of the collection - each essay homage to a figure that helped to shape his own way of thinking - Badiou reveals and engages with his own intellectual roots. Through tributes to his teachers, allies and opponents - Althusser, Sartre, Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze and Derrida, among others - Badiou conveys the richness and depth of this philosophical tradition, a tradition that has largely been lost in our contemporary world of pop-philosophers and political pundits. Zusammenfassung 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.
