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A Phenomenology of Trumpism
America Talks with the Origins of the West
This book traces our escalating geopolitical chaos to the utter failure of Western education. The purging of the Greeks from our schools with the masquerade that was modernity, combined with the prevalence of Teutonic neo-barbarism in Europe and a constitutional anti-intellectualism in America, has bred compiling generations of citizens bereft of a kind of thought that is essentially human. In the absence of human thought, market ideologies from Karl Marx to Adam Smith have enjoyed a long leash to establish as incontestable the idea that any existential proposition other than their own is nothing but an arrogant desire to redesign life itself. Thus Western “democracies” alternatively keep voting in Satan to fend off Beelzebub, having to choose between either a preanthropic Hobbesian, or a metanthropic Sartrean future, with not much in between. From what universal constancy, and from what kind of “education,” can an anthropic measure show beyond doubt that there is an alternative path? This is the riddle of the Age of Trumpism, the book argues; and forces the Statue of Liberty into a syzetetic discussion with the Greek statue, through a critical phenomenological return to the things themselves that bridges Heidegger’s thought with the metaphysics of Greek tragic art.
293 pages | 2 halftones | 6.69 x 9.61 | © 2026
Philosophy: General Philosophy
Political Science: Political and Social Theory
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: ART AND DEMOCRACY
The Absurdity of Defending One’s Own Demise
The Grassroots Movement: Not How Democracy Works
The Electoral Body and the Body of the Statue
‘Who Is Talking?’
The Grassroots Movement: Not How Democracy Works
The Electoral Body and the Body of the Statue
Chapter 2: THE ORIGIN OF THE WEST
The Western Embodiment of Spatiality
The Western Embodiment of Temporality
The Embodiment of Western Logic
The Embodiment of the Metaphysical Foundations of Logic
Chapter 3: REALIST MYSTIQUE
Where Culture and Nature Never Meet
The ‘West’ Is Not in Decline
Is Laokoön Either a Representation or an Idealization?
The Statue of Liberty and Last Man’s Dream
Chapter 4: AMERICAN NIGHTMARE
E Pluribus Unum or Homo Homini Lupus?
The Grassroots-Light Movement as Social Immobilizer
Armpit Aromatherapy and the Pilgrim Polis-on-the-Run
The American Constitution’s Germinal Arrogating of Reason
Marketing the Idiot: The Art of the Deal
Chapter 5: THINKING OURSELVES OUT OF BUSINESS
The Strategic Backlash and its Four-Pronged Tactics
Deep Grassrooting: The Use and Abuse of People’s Religiosity
Deep Grassrooting and the Exchange of Owning the ‘Elites’
The Deepest Most Grassrooting: Uprooting Reason
Chapter 6: THINKING OURSELVES OUT OF EDUCATION
The Kind of Thinking that ‘Educates’
The Call for More Welders and Less Philosophers
How to Educate People out of Thinking: ‘Just Think Big’
Does Tyranny Necessarily Follow the Failure of Education?
Chapter 7: LEARNING NOTHING
“Phronesis” and the Sources of Danger for Humanity
Music and Leftish Economic Theory
It’s About Time Again: America Must Have another Talk with Greece
Towards a Dow Jones Index Trading Nothing