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Trump
by Alain Badiou
(Polity, £9.99)
ALAIN BADIOU’S is a book of “instant” philosophy – and it is all the better for that.
Trump comprises two very short lectures delivered immediately after the election of the eponymous subject as US president. It’s the work of a longstanding Marxist theoretician, who uses a lifetime’s analytical experience to cut through the nonsense and ephemera of other commentaries.
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