In Pocket Pantheon Alain Badiou, one of today's leading political and philosophi
cal minds, invites readers to engage with some of the great thinkers of the post
war Western tradition such as Lacan, Sartre and Foucault. Drawing on his own enc
ounters with this pantheon - his teachers, opponents and allies - he is able to
offer unique insights into both the authors and their work. These studies form a
n accessible, authoritative distillation of continental theory and a capsule his
tory of a period in Western thought.
