The Meaning of Sarkozy

Resumen del libro

When Nicolas Sarkozy was elected President of the France in 2007, the world was shocked. Could this out and out right-winger really be the new leader of the Republic? Alain Badiou, in this sharp and focused intervention, claims that, in and of itself, the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as President is not an event, nor is it the cause for wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth. To understand the significance of "Sarkozy", we have to look behind the insignificance and vulgarity of the figure and ask what he represents, namely a reactionary tradition which goes back to the early nineteenth century.

To escape from the ambience of depression and fear that currently envelops the Left, Badiou casts aside the slavish worship of electoral democracy and maps out a communist hypothesis that can lay the basis for emancipatory politics in the twenty-first century.

Biografía del autor

Alain Badiou (Rabat, Protectorado francés de Marruecos, 1937) es un filósofo, dramaturgo y novelista francés. Profesor emérito en la Escuela Normal Superior (ENS) de Francia, es uno de los pensadores contemporáneos más influyentes en el debate público. Es autor de libros que se han transformado en clásicos como 'El ser y el acontecimiento' y 'Lógicas de los mundos'. Su obra es traducida y estudiada en más de treinta lenguas y leída en gran parte del mundo.