Balibar / Etienne Balibar Equaliberty

Political Essays
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7722-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten

Reihe: a John Hope Franklin Center Book

The preeminent political theorist Étienne Balibar examines what he calls "equaliberty," the fundamental tension in modern democracies between equality and liberty, humanity and citizenship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balibar, Étienne

Etienne Balibar, Balibar

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ingram, James

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword vii

Introduction. The Antimony of Citizenship 1

Part One. The Statement and Institution of Rights 33

1. The Proposition of Equaliberty 35

2. The Reversal of Possessive Individualism 67

3. New Reflections on Equaliberty: Two Lessons 99

Part Two. Sovereignty, Emancipation, Community (Some Critiques) 133

4. What Is Political Philosophy? Notes For a Topography 135

5. Communism and Citizenship: On Nicos Poulantzas 145

6. Hannah Arendt, the Right to Have Rights, and Civil Disobedience 165

7. Populism and Politics: The Return of the Contract 187

Part Three. For a Democracy Without Exclusion 197

8. What Are the Excluded Excluded From? 199

9. Dissonances within Laïcité: The New "Headscarf Affair" 209

10. Secularism and Universality: The Liberal Paradox 223

11. Uprisings in the Banlieues 231

12. Toward Co-Citizenship 259

Conclusion. Resistance, Insurrection, Insubordination 277

Notes 295

Works Cited 343

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Étienne Balibar was a student of Louis Althusser, with whom he cowrote Reading Capital. The author of many books on moral and political philosophy, he is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Paris–X Nanterrre and Anniversary Chair in the Humanities at Kingston University in London. He has served as Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, and, more recently, as Visiting Professor at Columbia University.