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Trump

By Alain Badiou
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In Trump, Alain Badiou analyses the global impact of Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory. Delivered as two lectures, the book explores how this event revealed a crisis defined by ruthless global capitalism, political elite collapse, widespread disorientation, and a lack of alternative visions. Badiou describes Trump as a unique political figure straddling establishment and outsider status and calls for a radical new political approach emphasising universality and equality.
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Recommended for readers interested in contemporary politics, global capitalism, and political philosophy seeking to understand the deeper implications of Trump’s rise.

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In two lectures given in the US immediately after Trump's election, Alain Badiou helps us to make sense of this extraordinary event, showing it as symptomatic of a global crisis. The progressive political challenge now is to create a genuinely new choice, a radical alternative based on principles of universality and equality.

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The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States sent shockwaves across the globe. How was such an outcome even possible?

In two lectures given at American universities in the immediate aftermath of the election, the leading French philosopher Alain Badiou helps us to make sense of this extraordinary occurrence. He argues that Trump's victory was the symptom of a global crisis made up of four characteristics: the triumph of a brutal form of global capitalism, the decomposition of the established political elite, the growing frustration and disorientation that many people feel today, and the absence of a compelling alternative vision.

It was in this context that Trump could emerge as a new kind of political figure that was both inside and outside the political order, a member of the Republican Party who, at the same time, represents something outside the system. The progressive political challenge now is to create something new that offers people a real choice, a radical alternative based on principles of universality and equality.

This concise account of the meaning of Trump should be read by everyone who wants to understand what is happening in our world today.

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Jodi Dean praises Badiou’s critical view of global capitalism and the call for a revolutionary political alternative. Publishers Weekly finds the book both approachable and insightful, appealing to general readers and political theory enthusiasts alike.

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ISBN: 9781509536078

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 29 March 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Polity Press

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 125.0mm

Height: 188.0mm

Weight: 159g

Pages: 80

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About the Author

Alain Badiou is a philosopher, playwright, and novelist, and an Emeritus Professor at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris.

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