Bücher von Etienne Balibar

Wann artikulieren sich Konflikte zwischen den Klassen rassistisch? Und sind hier noch andere als ökonomische Strukturen im Spiel? Was ist die Spezifik des gegenwärtigen Rassismus? Wie lässt sie sich mit der Klassenspaltung im Kapitalismus und den Widersprüchen des Nationalstaats verknüpfen? Inwiefern zwingt uns das Phänomen des Rassismus wiederum zu einem Überdenken des Nationalismus und der Klassenkämpfe? Diesen Fragen gehen Etienne Balibar und Immanuel Wallerstein in diesem Grundlagenwerk der Rassismustheorie nach. Sie belegen, dass die Konflikte zwischen den Klassen noch in andere als nur ökonomische Strukturen eingebunden sind; die Widersprüchlichkeit des Rassismus zeigt sich in der Formierung nationaler und ethnischer Identitäten ebenso wie in der zweideutigen Wirksamkeit herrschender Ideologien.

»Marx' Philosophie« ist ein Protokoll symptomatologischen Lesens, in dem Balibar aufschreibt, was Marx nicht ausgearbeitet hat - seine Intervention in die Philosophie. Er verfolgt Marx' Denken bis an die Punkte, an denen es schweigt und von Idealisierungen blockiert bleibt.

Many on the Left have looked upon "universal" as a dirty word, one that signals liberalism's failure to recognize the masculinist and Eurocentric assumptions from which it proceeds. Balibar builds on these critiques, yet works to rescue and reinvent what universal claims can offer for a revolutionary politics answerable to the common.

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

Acclaimed French philosopher on metaphysics and politics

etienne 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 "e;transnational citizenship"e; from the perspective of contemporary Europe. Balibar moves deftly from state theory, national sovereignty, and debates on multiculturalism and European racism, toward imagining a more democratic and less state-centered European citizenship. Although European unification has progressively divorced the concepts of citizenship and nationhood, this process has met with formidable obstacles. While Balibar seeks a deep understanding of this critical conjuncture, he goes beyond theoretical issues. For example, he examines the emergence, alongside the formal aspects of European citizenship, of a "e;European apartheid,"e; or the reduplication of external borders in the form of "e;internal borders"e; nurtured by dubious notions of national and racial identity. He argues for the democratization of how immigrants and minorities in general are treated by the modern democratic state, and the need to reinvent what it means to be a citizen in an increasingly multicultural, diversified world. A major new work by a renowned theorist, We, the People of Europe? offers a far-reaching alternative to the usual framing of multicultural debates in the United States while also engaging with these debates.