Alain Badiou, France’s leading radical theorist and commentator, dissects the Sarkozy phenomenon in this sharp, focused intervention. He argues that the. Alain Badiou (Verso, London, ). ‘[I]f human society is a collection of individuals pursuing their self-interest, if this is the eternal reality, then it is certain that. Philosophers, it is well known, only interpret the world, when the point is to change it. France’s Alain Badiou is a rare exception to this rule – a philosopher who.
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He is a “minuscule character in direct communication with the lowest form of opinion polls”, whose slavery to consensus has led him to declare pedophilia a genetic defect and himself a born heterosexual.
The Meaning of Sarkozy by Alain Badiou
He is too uncritical of the Stalinist and Maoist politics that dominated the left during the 20th century, and too dismissive of the existing left’s potential.
The parallels with Australia are obvious. May 19, Adrian Mendizabal rated it really liked it Shelves: He is particularly disgusted by the idea that popular consultation is supposed to bestow moral legitimacy on the winner. He does condemn Stalin, but Mao’s Cultural Revolution still merits defense. The lesser of two evils is still evil.
Decoding Sarkozy, by Chris J Bickerton (Le Monde diplomatique – English edition, February )
Amazon Drive Cloud storage from Amazon. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Qalandar rated it liked it Dec 02, The most incendiary, daring, and exciting aspect of the book is Badiou’s critique of electoral democracy. In diagnosing the weakness of the left, Badiou has exaggerated the strength of the right.
From the Hardcover edition. Yet in print he virulently defended himself against his critics. Jan 31, Malcolm rated it really liked it Shelves: Mar 27, David rated it it was amazing Shelves: If competition, the “free market,” the sum of little pleasures, and the walls that protect you from the desires of the weak, are the alpha and omega of all collective and private existence, then the human animal is not worth a cent.
He does saroozy one argument in favor of the communist hypothesis. In The Meaning of Sarkozy, the first English translation of Badiou’s angry meditations after the election, the author can hardly bear to write his meeaning name, referring to him mostly as “the Rat Man”. Mises Review 15, No. Take heart, then, that Fhe is here to offer resistance to the blithe opinion-mongering of these servile sycophants.
Hardcoverpages. He warns his readers to be free of any nostalgia that a triumphant Sarkozy might inspire. The book contains 9 chapters, only one of which is in the least bit interesting or worth discussing – Ch 4. Sarkozy conjured a spectre of social breakdown and moral decline, playing on public concerns about crime and immigration. If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through bsdiou support? Needless to say, these positions have hardly made him popular among the French establishment.
But no one can doubt that Badiou does not want greater access for all to the benefits of the market. He is not wrong- the treatise enacts the primordial, inaugural gesture of politics by doing what it says: There are no discussion topics meanung this book yet.
The advantage of hindsight is that we get to critique the author’s foresight, or lack thereof.
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Wuhanslim rated it it was amazing May 22, There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Badiou diagnoses the underlying logic of Sarkozy and traces out or hidden reactionary history of France for which Sarkozy serves as the capstone.
Skip to main content. Aalain sie werden wir im nihilistischen Konsum und in der polizeilichen Ordnung versinken. He is one of the most famous current French philosophers, his Being and Event acclaimed by many as a masterpiece.
Amazon Renewed Refurbished products with a warranty. Sartre said in an interview, which I paraphrase: Instead a new explanation for crime is devised – it is a moral failing among poor people. Skip to main content.
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Their strategies, their movements, their rhetoric, were all variations on a theme of liberal, free-market capitalism. It would not do for a politician to point out to those voters a connection between crime and inequality, since that would imply that sarjozy should surrender some of their wealth to the common good.
Avoiding this mistake, Badiou combines his call to transform the impotent into the impossible with another basic principle: