The meaning of Sarkozy
By: Alain Badiou ; translated by David Fernbach.
Contributors: Fernbach, David.
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9781844673094
Subjects: Sarkozy, Nicolas, -- 1955-; Sarkozy, Nicolas, -- 1955- -- Political and social views; Sarkozy, Nicolas, -- 1955- -- Influence; Presidents -- France -- Election -- 2007; Political campaigns -- France; Right and left (Political science); France -- Politics and government -- 2007-
Other titles: Sarkozy
Work titles: De quoi Sarkozy est-il le nom?
Description: "Alain Badiou, France's leading radical theorist and commentator, dissects the Sarkozy phenomenon in this sharp, focused intervention. He argues that the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as President does not necessarily signal a crucial turning point in French politics, nor require a further rightward move from competing electoral forces. To understand the significance of Sarkozy, we have to look beyond the right-wing populism and vulgarity of the man himself, and ask what he represents: a reactionary tradition that goes back to the early nineteenth century, a tradition based on fear.

Badiou argues that to escape from the atmosphere of depression and anxiety that currently envelops the Left, we need to cast aside the slavish worship of electoral democracy. In a characteristically doughty and wide-ranging conclusion, Alain Badiou maps out a 'communist hypothesis' that can lay the basis for a genuine emancipatory politics in the twenty-first century."--Jacket.
Notes: Translation of: De quoi Sarkozy est-il le nom?

First published: Paris, France : Nouvelles éditions Lignes, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references.