Etienne Balibar is Emeritus Professor at Paris X Nanterre and Anniversary Chair of Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London. He has addressed such questions as European racism, the notion of the border, whether a European citizenship is possible or desirable, violence, identity and emancipation. His books include Reading Capital (with Louis Althusser, New Left Books 1970), Race, Nation, Class (with Immanuel Wallerstein, Verso, 1991), The Philosophy of Marx, Spinoza and Politics, Politics and the Other Scene (Verso, 2002), and We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (Princeton UP, 2004). His latest publications are Equaliberty (Duke UP, 2014); Violence and Civility (Columbia UP, 2015), Citizenship (Polity, 2015) and Europe, crise et fin ? (Edition Le Bord de l’Eau, 2016).
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A call for an international right of hospitality on World Humanitarian DayIn the current situation there is a crying need to limit the arbitrariness of States by confronting them with...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The political representation of the European peopleEnglish version of the political philosopher’s interview with Vadim Kamenka of L’Humanite Dimanche (21 June) and Ana...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe in crisis: which ‘new foundation’?This essay is an English adaptation of the main part of the author’s “discourse of acceptance” for the Hannah-Arendt...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?'Populism' and 'counter-populism' in the Atlantic mirrorThere are three major lessons for we Europeans in the US presidential elections. They necessarily lead us towards...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Brexit: a dismantling momentWe have reached a turning point with an uncertain outcome, in which the British and European dimensions are two...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?In warIn this nomadic, undefined, polymorphous, and unsymmetrical war, the populations on 'both shores' of the...