Meaning of Sarkozy

In this incisive, acerbic work, Alain Badiou looks beyond the petty vulgarity of the French president to decipher the true significance of what he represents-a reactionary tradition that goes back more than a hundred years. To escape the malaise that has enveloped the Left since Sarkozy''s election, Badiou casts aside the slavish worship of electoral democracy and maps out a communist hypothesis t...