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?Europe and the refugees: a demographic enlargement
We will begin to understand that in order for Europe to be able to carry out the task which has suddenly fallen to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Borderland Europe and the challenge of migration
We tend to think that the external limits of the European Union define the 'real' borders of Europe, which is a mistake.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Il dilemma di Syriza e il nostro
Gli "accordi" del 13 luglio a Bruxelles segnano la fine di un'epoca? Sì, ma certamente non nel senso indicato dal...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Syriza’s dilemma, and ours
Do the “agreements” reached on July 13 mark the end of an era? Yes, but certainly not in the sense suggested by the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Brussels diktat: and what followed
Alexis Tsipras won the battle on a question of principle - the need for a new Europe - even if he lost the war that...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Das diktat von Brüssel: was folgt daraus?
Alexis Tsipras won the battle on a question of principle - the need for a new Europe - even if he lost the war that...