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8Spinoza et la politiquePresses Universitaires de France - PUF. 2011.L'ouvrage se propose d'introduire à la philosophie de Spinoza - conçue comme une ontologie et une éthique de la communication - à partir du rapport intrinsèque qu'elle entretient avec la politique. Après une mise en situation de Spinoza dans les conflits de son temps et de son pays, qui claire les multiples dimensions de son projet intellectuel, les trois grandes oeuvres (Traité théologico-politique, Traité politique, Ethique) sont successivement discutées. Une attention particulière est apporté…Read more
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50(De) Constructing the Human as Human Institution: A Reflection on the Coherence of Hannah Arendt's Practical PhilosophySocial Research: An International Quarterly 74 (3): 727-738. 2007.The paper argues that a specific "concept of the political" can be reconstructed in Arendt by bringing together elements coming from Origins of Totalitarianism, Part II , from The Human Condition and On Revolution , and from On Disobedience . These propositions produce a singular variety of "institutionalism", which involves a "groundless" politics of Human Rights , and also helps clarifying the thesis on the "banality of evil" in Eichmann in Jerusalem: the sovereign tautology "law is law" is th…Read more
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9Attfield, R., Environmental Philosophy: Principles and Prospects, Aldershot, Avebury, 1994, viii, 262, Stg.£ 35.00 (cloth). Ayers, M., Locke: Epistemology and Ontology, London,. Routledge, 1993 [1991], xii, 341, A $59.95 (paper). Baier, AC, Moral Prejudices: Essays on Ethics, Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1994 (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 72 (4). 1994.
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140What's in a War? (Politics as War, War as Politics)Ratio Juris 21 (3): 365-386. 2008.This paper combines reflections on the current “state of war” in the Middle East with an epistemological discussion of the meaning and implications of the category “war” itself, in order to dissipate the confusions arising from the idea of a “War on Terror.” The first part illustrates the insufficiency of the ideal type involved in dichotomies which are implicit in the naming and classifications of wars. They point nevertheless to a deeper problem which concerns the antinomic character of a coll…Read more
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120Sub specie universitatisTopoi 25 (1-2): 3-16. 2006.As a contribution to the debate on the future of philosophy as an autonomous discipline beyond its current function within Western-type universities, a comparison is offered between three diverging strategies of “speaking the universal” which keep their relevance today; the “Double Truth” strategy for secular tolerance, illustrated by Spinoza and Wittgenstein; the construction of the universal as “hegemony,” analyzed by Hegel and Marx in terms of collective consciousnesses or ideologies; and the…Read more
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11French Philosophy Since 1945: Problems, Concepts, Inventions (edited book)New Press. 2010.The fourth and final volume of The New Press Postwar French Thought series provides a fresh map and analysis for understanding the history of ideas since 1945. This anthology collects the writings of celebrated philosophers along with work by thinkers highly regarded in France for the first time. It contextualises the material within a larger intellectual and political history and chronology, identifying antecedents and distinguishing four main phases or moments. Indispensable for understanding …Read more
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13Politics and the Other SceneVerso. 2002."As one of Louis Althusser's most brilliant students in the 1960s, Etienne Balibar contributed to the theoretical collective masterpiece of Reading Capital. Since then he has established himself amongst the most subtle philosophical and political thinkers in France. In Politics and the Other Scene Balibar deepens and extends the work he first developed with Immanuel Wallerstein in Race, Nation, Class. Exploring the theme of universalism and difference, he addresses questions such as "European ra…Read more
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21First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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35The Rise and Fall of the European Union: Temporalities and TeleologiesConstellations 21 (2): 202-212. 2014.
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36Jus, Pactum, Lex: Sur la constitution du sujet dans le" Traité Théologico-PolitiqueStudia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 1 (n/a): 105-142. 1985.
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