The celebrated philosophical essays (The Myth of Sisyphus, The Rebel) are the work of an extraordinarily talented and literate epigone.

Our arts and letters are, arguably, those of epigones.

This is far less a view of Smith’s than of his epigones

the cause remained a minority passion, exorbitant, needless, a nursery for epigones

Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Lionel Jospin, and their many epigones were, very pointedly and precisely, not the left but assumed as a matter of course that they would retain the loyalty of the traditional left

doomed to be a Frankfurt school epigone