Lars Fr. H. Svendsen: Trump and the philosophers – how a study of the least philosophical man in history can teach you an astonishing amount about philosophy

The true, the good, and the beautiful – these are concepts that philosophers have pondered for thousands of years. Donald J. Trump represents none of them. Yet the Trump phenomenon, viewed through the lens of the history of philosophy, can tell us a lot about our time.

Philosopher Lars Svendsen's Trump and the Philosophers is both a journey through the history of philosophy and an attempt to understand our political contemporary times.

Is Trump a symptom of a civilization where love has lost its direction, as Augustine would have argued? Why would Niccolò Machiavelli have considered Trump a poor political craftsman? And in what way can MAGA, according to Simone de Beauvoir, be understood as an escape from freedom?

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen meets journalist Jo Skårderud in this conversation, where some of these questions are answered.

Lars Fredrik Händler Svendsen is a philosopher, author and columnist. He has also been involved as a project manager at the think tank Civita since 2007. Svendsen has published a number of books, on topics such as boredom, evil, fear and loneliness. Trump and the Philosophers (2026) is his latest publication.

Jo Skårderud (1985) is a journalist at Klassekampen and known as the Tik-Tok profile @Surjournalist.

Location: Sellanraa

Date: 03.06

Time: 19:00-20:30

Price: 150/100

Photo: Pangolin Publishing House/Lars Sturlason

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