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In Violence and Civility, Étienne Balibar boldly confronts the insidious causes of violence, racism, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing worldwide, as well as mass poverty and dispossession. Through a novel synthesis of theory and empirical studies of contemporary violence, the acclaimed thinker pushes past the limits of political philosophy to reconceive war, revolution, sovereignty, and class. Through the pathbreaking thought of Derrida, Balibar...
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Étienne Balibar is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-X and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. His previous books in English include Masses, Classes, Ideas, Politics and the Other Scene, Race, Nation, Class (with Immanuel Wallerstein), Reading Capital (with Louis Althusser), Spinoza and Politics, and The Philosophy of Marx.
étienne Balibar has been one of Europe's most important...
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En Universales. Feminismo, deconstrucción, traducción, Étienne Balibar problematiza la noción de universal, clarificando los debates sobre el sentido y el valor del universalismo. Esta noción, discutida calurosamente hoy en día (podríamos hablar de una "querella del universalismo" como antes, a propósito del humanismo) no podría ser unívoca, debe ser pluralizada, o más bien diferenciada, por dos razones cuyo conjunto produce una dialéctica...
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What is the relationship between cosmopolitanism and secularism-the worldwide and the worldly? While cosmopolitan politics may seem inherently secular, existing forms of secularism risk undermining the universality of cosmopolitanism, because they privilege the European tradition over all others and transform particular historical norms into enunciations of the truth. In this book, the noted philosopher Étienne Balibar explores the tensions lurking...
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