by Alain Badiou · Ellago Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496720688
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«¿Qué representa el nombre de Sarkozy?» is a philosophical essay by Alain Badiou, published by Ellago Ediciones in paperback (116 pages, in Spanish).
Badiou analyses the political use of fear in democracies dominated by the market economy and conceives of voting as an empty, apolitical operation that disorients citizens. Against this drift, he champions the individual's ideological commitment and offers an ironic critique of Sarkozy and contemporary French politics.
Translated from the French by Iván Ortega Rodríguez. First edition published in October 2008 in the Essay collection of Ellago Ediciones.
For readers of political philosophy interested in critical analysis of contemporary democracy.
Alain Badiou is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-François Lyotard. Badiou's work is heavily informed by philosophical applications of mathematics, in particular set theory and category theory. Badiou's "Being and Event" project considers the concepts of being, truth, event and the subject defined by a rejection of linguistic relativism seen as typical of postwar French thought. Unlike his peers, Badiou believes in the idea of universalism and truth. His work is notable for his widespread applications of various conceptions of indifference. Badiou has been involved in a number of political organisations, and regularly comments on political events. Badiou argues for a return of communism as a political force.
