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?Useless European elections?
A vicious circle must be broken, but this can arise only from inside the European perspective, through a mounting...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Out of the interregnum
The old national order is dead, but the new post-national union of states, whether called a federation or not, is...
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Published in: HomeA new Europe can only come from the bottom up
Simply put, 'another Europe' must be able to suggest alternatives that make sense to the majority of the citizens...
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Published in: HomeOur European incapacity
If we are to articulate a ‘politics of hope’ in contemporary Europe, then we must revisit such problematic concepts...