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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.
In so doing, he provides incisive discourses on the increasing contradictions of global capitalism and, while the second is more detailed, the first is of value in its appreciation of the rawness of bourgeois reaction to the election of Trump.
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