Author

BALIBAR Etienne

Born in Avallon (France) in 1942. Emeritus Professor (political and moral philosophy), University of Paris X-Nanterre, and Distinguished Professor of Humanities, University of California, Irvine.

 

Bibliography

- Lire le Capital (with L. Althusser, P. Macherey, J. Rancière, R. Establet), Maspéro, 1965 (reed. "Quadrige", PUF, 1996).

- Cinq Etudes du Matérialisme Historique, Maspéro,1974.

- Spinoza et la politique, P.U.F.,1985.

- Race, Nation, Classe, Les identités ambiguës (with Immanuel Wallerstein), La Découverte, 1988.

- Ecrits pour Althusser, La Découverte, 1991.

- La crainte des masses. Politique et philosophie avant et après Marx, Galilée, 1999.

- Sans-papiers : l’archaïsme fatal, (with Monique Chemillier-Gendreau, Jacqueline Costa-Lascoux, Emmanuel Terray), La Découverte, 2001.

- Nous, citoyens d’Europe ? Les frontières, l’Etat, le peuple, La Découverte, 2001.

- L’Europe, l’Amérique, la Guerre. Réflexions sur la médiation européenne, La Découverte, 2003.

- Contributor of the Vocabulaire européen des Philosophies. Dictionnaire des intraduisibles (dir. by Barbara Cassin), Seuil-Le Robert, 2004.

 

Selected translations

1970: Reading Capital (London: NLB). With Louis Althusser.

1977: On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (London: NLB).

1991: Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities (London & New York: Verso). With Immanuel Wallerstein.

1994: Masses, Classes, Ideas: Studies on Politics and Philosophy Before and After Marx (New York & London: Routledge).

1995: The Philosophy of Marx (London & New York: Verso).

1998: Spinoza and Politics (London & New York: Verso).

2002: Politics and the Other Scene (London & New York: Verso).

2004: We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press).

Articles

Speaking the Universal

Etienne BALIBAR

5 November 2009

What makes a reflection on the future of “philosophy” as we knew it and practiced it (whether it will exist under the same name, separated from other scientific or social practices, etc.) at the same time urgent and confused, is among other reasons the fact that it is frequently reaching us through considerations on the geohistorical status of the association between the discourse and the institution.

Réflexions sur la crise européenne en cours

Etienne BALIBAR

28 July 2010

Exposé introductif, Lundi 14 juin à 19h, débat au grand auditorium Sakis Karagiorgas, université  Panteion, Athènes. A la table ronde participent Etienne Balibar, Costas Douzinas, Pavlos Klavdianos (du journal Epochi), Yannis Millios (de la revue Thesseis), Vanghelis Bitsoris (Aletheia) et Vicky Skoumbi (Aletheia). Présidence de Dimitris Vergetis.