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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.

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"A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!"-Slavoj Zizek

"One of the most important philosophers writing today."-Joan Copjec

"An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser."- New Statesman

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Alain Badiou teaches 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, including Theory of the Subject , Being and Event , Manifesto for Philosophy , and Gilles Deleuze . His recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy , Ethics , Metapolitics , Polemics, The Communist Hypothesis , Five Lessons on Wagner , and Wittgenstein´s Anti-Philosophy .

David Macey translated some twenty books from French to English. He was the author of Lacan in Context , the acclaimed The Lives of Michel Foucault , The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory and Frantz Fanon: A Biography . He died in October 2011.

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