Equaliberty

Informationen zum Autor Étienne Balibar was a student of Louis Althusser, with whom he cowrote Reading Capital. The author of many books on moral and political philosophy, he is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Université de ParisX Nanterrre and Anniversary Chair in the Humanities at Kingston University in London. He has served as Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, and, more recently, as Visiting Professor at Columbia University. Klappentext The preeminent political theorist Étienne Balibar examines what he calls "equaliberty," the fundamental tension in modern democracies between equality and liberty, humanity and citizenship. "Today many of the key concepts of our political vocabulary-including equality, freedom, democracy, and emancipation-seem so corrupted and vacuous that they are almost unusable. etienne Balibar makes an important contribution by engaging critically and restoring these and other crucial political concepts. "Equaliberty" is a major book that displays Balibar's exemplary combination of erudition and clear, accessible argument."--Michael Hardt, coauthor of the books" Declaration", "Commonwealth", "Multitude", and "Empire" Zusammenfassung The preeminent political theorist Ãtienne Balibar examines what he calls "equaliberty," the fundamental tension in modern democracies between equality and liberty, humanity and citizenship. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword vii Introduction. The Antimony of Citizenship 1 Part One. The Statement and Institution of Rights 33 1. The Proposition of Equaliberty 35 2. The Reversal of Possessive Individualism 67 3. New Reflections on Equaliberty: Two Lessons 99 Part Two. Sovereignty, Emancipation, Community (Some Critiques) 133 4. What Is Political Philosophy? Notes For a Topography 135 5. Communism and Citizenship: On Nicos Poulantzas 145 6. Hannah Arendt, the Right to Have Rights, and Civil Disobedience 165 7. Populism and Politics: The Return of the Contract 187 Part Three. For a Democracy Without Exclusion 197 8. What Are the Excluded Excluded From? 199 9. Dissonances within Laïcité: The New "Headscarf Affair" 209 10. Secularism and Universality: The Liberal Paradox 223 11. Uprisings in the Banlieues 231 12. Toward Co-Citizenship 259 Conclusion. Resistance, Insurrection, Insubordination 277 Notes 295 Works Cited 343 Index...

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Étienne Balibar

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

Inhalt

Foreword vii
Introduction. The Antimony of Citizenship 1
Part One. The Statement and Institution of Rights 33

1. The Proposition of Equaliberty 35
2. The Reversal of Possessive Individualism 67
3. New Reflections on Equaliberty: Two Lessons 99
   Part Two. Sovereignty, Emancipation, Community (Some Critiques) 133
4. What Is Political Philosophy? Notes For a Topography 135
5. Communism and Citizenship: On Nicos Poulantzas 145
6. Hannah Arendt, the Right to Have Rights, and Civil Disobedience 165
7. Populism and Politics: The Return of the Contract 187
   Part Three. For a Democracy Without Exclusion 197
8. What Are the Excluded Excluded From? 199
9. Dissonances within Laïcité: The New "Headscarf Affair" 209
10. Secularism and Universality: The Liberal Paradox 223
11. Uprisings in the Banlieues 231
12. Toward Co-Citizenship 259
    Conclusion. Resistance, Insurrection, Insubordination 277
    Notes 295
    Works Cited 343
    Index