Trump by Alain Badiou HARDBACK 9781509536078

Trump\nby Alain Badiou\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Alain Badiou\nTitle: Trump\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Politics and government\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9781509536078\nISBN-10: 1509536078\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThe 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 esta.