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262From class struggle to struggle without classes?Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 14 (1): 7-21. 1991.
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1441. At the Borders of EuropeIn We, the People of Europe?: Reflections on Transnational Citizenship, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-10. 2003.
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141What'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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140Philosophy and the Frontiers of the Political. A biographical-theoretical interview with Emanuela FornariIris. European Journal of Philosophy and Public Debate 2 (3): 23-64. 2010.Philosophy and the Frontiers of the Political is the title of a biographical-theoretical interview between Emanuela Fornari and Étienne Balibar. The interview falls into three parts. The first part retraces the theoretical and intellectual climate in which Balibar received his education in the early 1960s: in this context the study of classical thinkers such as Spinoza went hand in hand with a radical rethinking of the relations between politics and philosophy, conducted in the context of an att…Read more
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122Outlines of a Topography of Cruelty: Citizenship and Civility in the Era of Global ViolenceConstellations 8 (1): 15-29. 2001.
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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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103A note on" consciousness/Conscience" in the" Ethics"Studia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 8 37-54. 1992.
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94The philosophy of MarxVerso. 1995.Marxist Philosophy or Marx's Philosophy? The general idea of this little book is to understand and explain why Marx will still be read in the twenty-first ...
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93Spinoza's Three Gods and the Modes of CommunicationEuropean Journal of Philosophy 20 (1): 26-49. 2012.The paper, which retains a hypothetical character, argues that Spinoza's propositions referring to God (or involving the use of the name ‘God’, essentially in the Ethics), can be read in a fruitful manner apart from any pre-established hypothesis concerning his own ‘theological preferences’, as definite descriptions of three ‘ideas of God’ which have the same logical status: one (akin to Jewish Monotheism) which identifies the idea of God with the idea of the Law, one (akin to a heretic ‘Socinia…Read more
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93We, the People of Europe?: Reflections on Transnational CitizenshipPrinceton University Press. 2003.étienne Balibar has been one of Europe's most important philosophical and political thinkers since the 1960s. His work has been vastly influential on both sides of the Atlantic throughout the humanities and the social sciences. In We, the People of Europe?, he expands on themes raised in his previous works to offer a trenchant and eloquently written analysis of "transnational citizenship" from the perspective of contemporary Europe. Balibar moves deftly from state theory, national sovereignty, a…Read more
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92Le structuralisme : une destitution du sujet ?Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 1 (1): 5-22. 2005.On emploie ici le terme « structuralisme » dans un sens large, incluant les œuvres de Lévi-Strauss et Barthes aussi bien que celles d'Althusser, de Lacan, de Foucault. J'y vois non pas un système ou une école de pensée, mais un mouvement, et j'y inclus également le « post-structuralisme » de Derrida et de Deleuze, en tant que « négation déterminée » de certains présupposés. Je soutiens que le structuralisme ne se caractérise pas par une position objectiviste, mais par la relance de la tentative …Read more
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83Constructions and deconstructions of the universalCritical Horizons 7 (1): 21. 2006.This paper presents the main directions of a new research project that centres on the paradox of the enunciation of the universal. Historical experience and the history of philosophy have made us highly sceptical towards the very possibility of enunciating the universal, yet the universal can be said to have become a fact of contemporary life, and the attempt at enunciating the universal remains an inescapable demand, in politics and notably in practice. Not to enunciate the universal is impossi…Read more
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78Philosophies of the Transindividual: Spinoza, Marx, FreudAustralasian Philosophical Review 2 (1): 5-25. 2018.In this contribution, Balibar follows his seminal 1993 work applying the notion of the transindividual to Spinoza’s work, to produce a broader history of thinking the transindividual that brings both Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud into relation with Spinoza, devoting a section to each of these thinkers. Balibar positions the notion of the transindividual, here, as a solution to the opposing ontological errors of philosophical individualism that fails to attend to the social constitution of the indi…Read more
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64L'anthropologie philosophique et l'anthropologie historique en débatRue Descartes 75 (3): 81. 2012.
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59La construction du racismeActuel Marx 38 (2): 11-28. 2005.We observe many signs of the fact that the category « racism » not only has profoundly changed its meaning, but could also have reached the limits of its historical validity, both as an instrument of theoretical analysis, and as an instrument of progressive politics. The failed World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and related Intolerance in Durban (2002) was a striking indication in this respect. As a consequence, we can no longer proceed in our struggle against ext…Read more
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55The following books have been received and are available for review. Please contact the Reviews Editor: jim. oshea@ ucd. ie (review)International Journal of Philosophical Studies 12 (4). 2004.
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52At the Borders of Citizenship: A Democracy in Translation?European Journal of Social Theory 13 (3): 315-322. 2010.Borders are never purely local institutions, never reducible to a simple history of conflicts and agreements between neighboring groups and powers. Borders are already global, ways of dividing the world into regions and thus make possible place and a ‘mapping imaginary’. Borders are characterized by an intrinsic ambivalence that derives from their internal and external functions, as the basis of collective belonging and state control over mobility and territory. The construction of political spa…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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