Background
Étienne Balibar was born on April 23, 1942, in Avallon, France. He is a son of Jean Balibar and Renée Balibar.
1992
Etienne Balibar
1998
Etienne Balibar in France
2014
Etienne Balibar with Judith Butler in Berkeley.
45 Rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France
The École normale supérieure where Étienne Balibar studied.
Houtlaan 4, 6525 XZ Nijmegen, Netherlands
Radboud University where Étienne Balibar received a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
75005 Paris, France
Paris-Sorbonne University where Étienne Balibar received a Bachelor of Philosophy degree.
(A classic work of Marxist analysis, available unabridged ...)
A classic work of Marxist analysis, available unabridged for the first time Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, reconstructing Western Marxism from its foundations. Louis Althusser, the French Marxist philosopher, maintained that Marx’s project could only be revived if its scientific and revolutionary novelty was thoroughly divested of all traces of humanism, idealism, Hegelianism and historicism. In order to complete this critical rereading, Althusser and his students at the École normale supérieure ran a seminar on Capital, re-examining its arguments, strengths and weaknesses in detail, and it was out of those discussions that this book was born.
https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Capital-Complete-Louis-Althusser/dp/1784781444/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
1970
(No-one and nothing, not even the Congress of a Communist ...)
No-one and nothing, not even the Congress of a Communist Party, can abolish the dictatorship of the proletariat. That is the most important conclusion of this book by Étienne Balibar. Balibar spells out his reasoning against the background of the 22nd Congress of the French Communist Party, which decided to ‘drop’ the aim of the dictatorship of the proletariat and to substitute the objective of a ‘democratic’ road to socialism. His concrete references are therefore usually to arguments put forward within the French Party.
https://www.amazon.com/Dictatorship-Proletariat-Etienne-Balibar/dp/0902308599/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=On+the+Dictatorship+of+the+Proletariat&qid=1582883251&s=books&sr=1-1
1977
(Forty years after the defeat of Nazism, and twenty years ...)
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? What are the special characteristics of contemporary racism? How can it be related to class divisions and to the contradictions of the nation-state? And how far, in turn, does racism today compel us to rethink the relationship between class struggles and nationalism? This book attempts to answer these fundamental questions through a remarkable dialogue between the French philosopher Etienne Balibar and the American historian and sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein. Each brings to the debate the fruits of over two decades of analytical work, greatly inspired, respectively, by Louis Althusser and Fernand Braudel. Both authors challenge the commonly held notion of racism as a continuation of, or a throwback to, the xenophobias of past societies and communities.
https://www.amazon.com/Race-Nation-Class-Ambiguous-Identities/dp/0860915425/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Race%2C+Nation%2C+Class&qid=1582883314&s=books&sr=1-2
1991
(A rich and accessible introduction to Marx’s fundamental ...)
A rich and accessible introduction to Marx’s fundamental concepts from a key intellectual – now updated 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 and theoretical context – including the concepts of class struggle, ideology, humanism, progress, determinism, commodity fetishism, and the state.
https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Marx-%C3%89tienne-Balibar/dp/1784786039/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Philosophy+of+Marx&qid=1582883501&s=books&sr=1-1
1995
(With Hobbes and Locke, Spinoza is arguably one of the mos...)
With Hobbes and Locke, Spinoza is arguably one of the most important political philosophers of the modern era, a premier theoretician of democracy and mass politics. In this revised and augmented English translation of his 1985 classic, Spinoza et la Politique, Etienne Balibar presents a synoptic account of Spinoza’s major works, admirably demonstrating relevance to his contemporary political life. Balibar carefully situates Spinoza’s major treatises in the period in which they were written.
https://www.amazon.com/Spinoza-Politics-Radical-Thinkers-Etienne/dp/1844672050/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Spinoza+and+Politics&qid=1582883626&s=books&sr=1-1
1998
(In this work, Balibar explores the theme of universalism ...)
In this work, Balibar explores the theme of universalism and difference, and addresses questions such as European racism, the notion of the border, whether a European citizenship is possible or desirable, violence and politics, identity and emancipation.
https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Other-Phronesis-Etienne-Balibar/dp/1859847250/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Politics+and+the+Other+Scene&qid=1582886202&s=books&sr=1-1
2002
(John Locke’s foundational place in the history of British...)
John Locke’s foundational place in the history of British empiricism and liberal political thought is well established. So, in what sense can Locke be considered a modern European philosopher? Identity and Difference argue for reassessing this canonical figure. Closely examining the "treatise on identity" added to the second edition of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Étienne Balibar demonstrates Locke’s role in the formation of two concepts central to the metaphysics of the subject – consciousness and the self – and the complex philosophical, legal, moral and political nature of his terms.
https://www.amazon.com/Identity-Difference-Locke-Invention-Consciousness-ebook/dp/B00CCONWJI/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Identity+and+Difference%3A+John+Locke+and+the+Invention+of+Consciousness&qid=1582886829&s=books&sr=1-1
2013
(First published in French in 2010, Equaliberty brings tog...)
First published in French in 2010, Equaliberty brings together essays by Étienne Balibar, one of the preeminent political theorists of our time. The book is organized around equaliberty, a term coined by Balibar to connote the tension between the two ideals of modern democracy: equality (social rights and political representation) and liberty (the freedom citizens have to contest the social contract). He finds the tension between these different kinds of rights to be ingrained in the constitution of the modern nation-state and the contemporary welfare state. At the same time, he seeks to keep rights discourse open, eschewing natural entitlements in favor of a deterritorialized citizenship that could be expanded and invented anew in the age of globalization. Deeply engaged with other thinkers, including Arendt, Rancière, and Laclau, he posits a theory of the polity based on social relations. In Equaliberty Balibar brings both the continental and analytic philosophical traditions to bear on the conflicted relations between humanity and citizenship.
https://www.amazon.com/Equaliberty-Political-Essays-Franklin-Center/dp/0822355647/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Equaliberty%3A+Political+Essays&qid=1582887124&s=books&sr=1-1
2014
(In Violence and Civility, Étienne Balibar boldly confront...)
In Violence and Civility, Étienne Balibar boldly confronts the insidious causes of violence, racism, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing worldwide, as well as mass poverty and dispossession. Through a novel synthesis of theory and empirical studies of contemporary violence, the acclaimed thinker pushes past the limits of political philosophy to reconceive war, revolution, sovereignty, and class.
https://www.amazon.com/Violence-Civility-Political-Philosophy-Lectures-ebook/dp/B00UCC68DE/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Violence+and+Civility%3A+On+the+Limits+of+Political+Philosophy&qid=1582887292&s=books&sr=1-1
2015
(What can the universals of political philosophy offer to ...)
What can the universals of political philosophy offer to those who experience "the living paradox of an inegalitarian construction of egalitarian citizenship"? Citizen Subject is the summation of Étienne Balibar's career-long project to think the necessary and necessarily antagonistic relation between the categories of citizen and subject. In this magnum opus, the question of modernity is framed anew with special attention to the self-enunciation of the subject (in Descartes, Locke, Rousseau, and Derrida), the constitution of the community as "we" (in Hegel, Marx, and Tolstoy), and the aporia of the judgment of self and others (in Foucualt, Freud, Kelsen, and Blanchot). After the "humanist controversy" that preoccupied twentieth-century philosophy, Citizen Subject proposes foundations for philosophical anthropology today, in terms of two contrary movements: the becoming-citizen of the subject and the becoming-subject of the citizen.
https://www.amazon.com/Citizen-Subject-Philosophical-Anthropology-Commonalities/dp/0823273601/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Citizen+Subject%3A+Foundations+for+Philosophical+Anthropology&qid=1582887393&s=books&sr=1-1
2017
(What is the relationship between cosmopolitanism and secu...)
What is the relationship between cosmopolitanism and secularism―the worldwide and the worldly? While cosmopolitan politics may seem inherently secular, existing forms of secularism risk undermining the universality of cosmopolitanism because they privilege the European tradition over all others and transform particular historical norms into enunciations of truth, valid for all cultures and all epochs. In this book, the noted philosopher Étienne Balibar explores the tensions lurking at this troubled nexus in order to advance a truly democratic and emancipatory cosmopolitanism, which requires a secularization of secularism itself.
https://www.amazon.com/Secularism-Cosmopolitanism-Hypotheses-Perspectives-Criticism/dp/0231168608/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Secularism+and+Cosmopolitanism%3A+Critical+Hypotheses+on+Religion+and+Politics&qid=1582887449&s=books&sr=1-1
2018
Étienne Balibar was born on April 23, 1942, in Avallon, France. He is a son of Jean Balibar and Renée Balibar.
Étienne Balibar attended École Normale Supérieure from 1960 to 1964. He received a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1962 and a Diploma of Higher Studies in 1963 from Paris-Sorbonne University. He also studied at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (now Radboud University) where he received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1987.
Étienne Balibar received his habilitation from the Université Paris I in 1993. He also received an honorary doctorate from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) in 2005.
Étienne Balibar started his career as an assistant at the University of Algiers in 1965. He left this post in 1967 and became a professor at the School of Savigny sur Orge (now Collège les Gâtines René Cassin). In 1969, Balibar took up a post of a Senior Lecturer at Pantheon-Sorbonne University. In 1977, he was appointed an associate professor. He left this post in 1994 and became a professor at Paris Nanterre University where he worked until 2002. Balibar served as a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California Irvine from 2000 to 2012. He also was an Anniversary Chair Professor at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University and a visiting professor at the Department of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University.
Étienne Balibar published his first book Lire le Capitale (Reading Capital) in 1970. Later he wrote such books as On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, The Philosophy of Marx, Spinoza and Politics, Identity And Difference, Secularism and Cosmopolitanism. He also wrote articles for philosophical journals.
(Forty years after the defeat of Nazism, and twenty years ...)
1991(What is the relationship between cosmopolitanism and secu...)
2018(A rich and accessible introduction to Marx’s fundamental ...)
1995(What can the universals of political philosophy offer to ...)
2017(In this work, Balibar explores the theme of universalism ...)
2002(A classic work of Marxist analysis, available unabridged ...)
1970(In Violence and Civility, Étienne Balibar boldly confront...)
2015(With Hobbes and Locke, Spinoza is arguably one of the mos...)
1998(First published in French in 2010, Equaliberty brings tog...)
2014(John Locke’s foundational place in the history of British...)
2013(No-one and nothing, not even the Congress of a Communist ...)
1977Étienne Balibar joined the French Communist Party in 1961. However, he was expelled in 1981 for critiquing the party's policy on immigration in an article.
Étienne Balibar contends that it is impossible to pinpoint the beginning of a nation or to argue that the modern people who inhabit a nation-state are the descendants of the nation that preceded it. He argues that, because no nation-state has an ethnic base, every nation-state must create fictional ethnicities in order to project stability on the populace.
Balibar also argues that "schooling is the principal institution which produces ethnicity as a linguistic community". In addition, this ethnicity is created through the "nationalization of the family," meaning that the state comes to perform certain functions that might traditionally be performed by the family, such as the regulation of marriages and administration of social security.
Étienne Balibar married Françoise Balibar. The marriage produced a daughter.