A trenchant and witty dissection of the French political scene by the leading radical philosopher.Alain  Badiou, France's leading radical theorist and commentator, dissects the Sarkozy phenomenon in this sharp, focused intervention. He argues that the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as President does not necessarily signal a crucial turning point in French politics, nor require a further rightward move from competing electoral forces.   To  understand the significance of Sarkozy, we have to look beyond the  right-wing populism and vulgarity of the man himself, and ask what he represents: a reactionary tradition that goes back to the early nineteenth  century, a tradition based on fear.   Badiou argues that to escape from the atmosphere of depression and anxiety that  currently envelops the Left, we need to cast aside the slavish worship of  electoral democracy. In a characteristically doughty and wide-ranging conclusion, Alain Badioun maps out a 'communist hypothesis' that can lay  the basis for a genuine emancipatory politics in the twenty-first century.

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