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With Hobbes and Locke, Spinoza is arguably one of the most important political philosophers of the modern era, a premier theoretician of democracy and...
As one of Louis Althusser's most brilliant students in the 1960s, Etienne Balibar contributed to the theoretical collective masterpiece of Reading Cap...
Reflections on Transnational Citizenship
étienne Balibar has been one of Europe's most important philosophical and political thinkers since the 1960s. His work has been vastly influential on...
Written by one of political theory's leading thinkers, The Philosophy of Marx examines all the key areas of Marx's writings in their wider historical ...
Political Essays
First published in French in 2010, Equaliberty brings together essays by Étienne Balibar, one of the preeminent political theorists of our time. The ...
Ambiguous Identities
Forty years after the defeat of Nazism, and twenty years after the great wave of decolonization, how is it that racism remains a growing phenomenon? W...
Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology
What can the universals of political philosophy offer to those who experience "the living paradox of an inegalitarian construction of egalitarian citi...
A Selection from Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy
In this impassioned argument, Étienne Balibar boldly confronts the insidious causes of violence, racism, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing worldwide....
Studies on Politics and Philosophy Before and After Marx
In Masses, Classes, Ideas, French philosopher Etienne Balibar explores the intrinsic relationship between abstract philosophy and concrete politics. H...
Together with Louis Althusser’s book For Marx, Reading Capital represents one of the foundational texts of the school of “structuralist Marxism”...
Constructing and Deconstructing Community
Many on the Left have looked upon “universal” as a dirty word, one that signals liberalism’s failure to recognize the masculinist and Eurocentri...
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The Complete Edition
Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, reconstructing Western Marxism from its foundations....
On the Limits of Political Philosophy
In Violence and Civility, Étienne Balibar boldly confronts the insidious causes of violence, racism, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing worldwide, as ...
Critical Hypotheses on Religion and Politics
What is the relationship between cosmopolitanism and secularism—the worldwide and the worldly? While cosmopolitan politics may seem inherently secul...
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John Locke And The Invention Of Consciousness
John Locke’s foundational place in the history of British empiricism and liberal political thought is well established. So, in what sense can Locke ...
If fundamental political categories were represented as geometric shapes, citizenship would be one of those rotating polyhedrons with reflective surfa...
Ethics and the Problem of Contingency
More than a purely philosophical problem, straddling the ambivalent terrain between necessity and impossibility, contingency has become the very horiz...
Étienne Balibar, one of the foremost living French philosophers, builds on his landmark work 'Spinoza and Politics' with this exploration of Spinoza'...