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Spinoza and Politics

By: Etienne Balibar,Warren Montag

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With Hobbes and Locke, Spinoza is arguably one of the most important political philosophers of the modern era, a premier theoretician of democracy and mass politics. In this revised and augmented English translation of his 1985 classic, Spinoza et la Politique, Etienne Balibar presents a synoptic account of Spinoza’s major works, admirably demonstrating relevance to his contemporary political life. Balibar carefully situates Spinoza’s major treatises in the period in which they were written. In successive chapters, he examines the political situation in the United Provinces during Spinoza’s lifetime, Spinoza’s own religious and ideological associations, the concept of democracy developed in the Theologico-Political Treatise, the theory of the state advanced in the Political Treatise and the anthropological basis for politics established in the Ethics.

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1844672050

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The Philosophy Of Marx

By: Etienne Balibar

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The Philosophy Of Marx

By: Etienne Balibar

Providing a lucid and accessible introduction to Marx, complete with pedagogical boxes, a chronology and guides to further reading, Etienne Balibar makes the most difficult areas of his philosophy easy to understand. One of the most influential French philosophers to have emerged from the 1960s, Balibar brings a lifetime of study and expertise to create a brilliantly concise portrait of Marx that will initiate the student and intrigue the scholar. He examines all the key areas of Marx’s writings, including his early works, The Communist Manifesto, The German Ideology and Capital, explaining their wider historical and theoretical context. Making clear such concepts as class struggle, ideology, humanism, progress, determinism, commodity fetishism and the state, Balibar includes brief yet incisive biographical studies of key Marxists such as Althusser, Gramsci, Engels and Lenin. The Philosophy of Marx will become the standard guide to Marx’s thought.

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1781682070

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Politics and the Other Scene

By: Etienne Balibar

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Politics and the Other Scene

By: Etienne Balibar

As one of Louis Althusser’s most brilliant students in the 1960s, Etienne Balibar contributed to the theoretical collective masterpiece of Reading Capital. Since then he has established himself among the most subtle philosophical and political thinkers in France. In Politics and the Other Scene Balibar deepens and extends the work he first developed with Immanuel Wallerstein in Race, Nation, Class. Exploring the theme of universalism and difference, he addresses such topical questions as European racism, the notion of the border, whether a European citizenship is possible or desirable, violence and politics, and identity and emancipation.

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Identity and Difference

John Locke and the Invention of Consciousness

By: Etienne Balibar

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Identity and Difference

John Locke and the Invention of Consciousness

By: Etienne Balibar

John Locke’s foundational place in the history of British empiricism and liberal political thought is well established. So, in what sense can Locke be considered a modern European philosopher? Identity and Difference argues for reassessing this canonical figure. Closely examining the "treatise on identity" added to the second edition of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Étienne Balibar demonstrates Locke’s role in the formation of two concepts central to the metaphysics of the subject—consciousness and the self—and the complex philosophical, legal, moral and political nature of his terms. With an accompanying essay by Stella Sandford, situating Balibar’s reading of Locke in the history of the reception of the Essay and within Balibar’s other writings on "the subject," Identity and Difference rethinks a crucial moment in the history of Western philosophy.

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178168135X

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Reading Capital

By: Louis Althusser,Etienne Balibar

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Reading Capital

By: Louis Althusser,Etienne Balibar

Establishing a rigorous program of “symptomatic reading” that cuts through the silences and lacunae of Capital to reveal its philosophical core, Louis Althusser interprets Marx’s structural analysis of production as a revolutionary break—the basis of a completely new science. Building on a series of Althussers’s conceptual innovations that includes “overdetermination” and “social formation,” Étienne Balibar explores the historical and structural facets of production as Marx understood them, scrutinizing many of the most fundamental points in Capital, as though for the first time.

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1844673472

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Spinoza, the Transindividual

By: Etienne Balibar

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Spinoza, the Transindividual

By: Etienne Balibar

Etienne Balibar, one of the foremost living French philosophers, builds on his landmark work 'Spinoza and Politics' with this exploration of Spinoza's ontology. Balibar situates Spinoza in relation to the major figures of Marx and Freud as a precursor to the more recent French thinker Gilbert Simondon's concept of the transindividual. Presenting a crucial development in his thought, Balibar takes the concept of transindividuality beyond Spinoza to show it at work at both the individual and the collective level.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474454305

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Spinoza, the Transindividual

By: Etienne Balibar

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Identity and Difference

John Locke and the Invention of Consciousness

By: Etienne Balibar

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John Locke and the Invention of Consciousness

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The Philosophy Of Marx

By: Etienne Balibar

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The Philosophy Of Marx

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In The Philosophy of Marx, Etienne Balibar provides an accessible introduction to Marx and his key followers, complete with pedagogical information for the student to make the most challenging areas of theory easy to understand. Examining all the key areas of Marx’s writings in their wider historical and theoretical context—including the concepts of class struggle, ideology, humanism, progress, determinism, commodity fetishism, and the state—The Philosophy of Marx is a gateway into the thought of one of history’s great minds.

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1781681538

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Masses, Classes, Ideas

Studies on Politics and Philosophy Before and After Marx

By: Etienne Balibar

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Masses, Classes, Ideas

Studies on Politics and Philosophy Before and After Marx

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In Masses, Classes, Ideas, well-known French philosopher Etienne Balibar explores the relationship between abstract philosophy and concrete politics. The book gathers together for the first time in English nine of Balibar's most influential essays written over the last decade, which have been carefully revised and reordered in logical succession with an original preface. Balibar discusses the influence of political philosophy on collective movements, touching on issues of religious and class struggle, nationalism and racism, the rights of man and the citizen, and property as a social relation. He seeks to explain the novelty of Marxist philosophy and political theory with respect to the classical doctrines of "state" and "revolution." Masses, Classes, Ideas also examines the limitations and aporias which have become manifest in Marxist philosophy and critically assesses its legacy, offering a provocative contribution to the project of renewing democratic theory.

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Spinoza and Politics

By: Etienne Balibar,Warren Montag

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Social Class in Europe

New Inequalities in the Old World

By: Etienne Penissat,Alexis Spire,Cedric Hugree

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Social Class in Europe

New Inequalities in the Old World

By: Etienne Penissat,Alexis Spire,Cedric Hugree

Mapping the class divisions that run throughout Europe Over the last ten years - especially with the 'no' votes in the French and Dutch referendums in 2010, and the victory for Brexit in 2016 - the issue of Europe has been placed at the centre of major political conflicts. Each of these crises has revealed profound splits in society, which are represented in terms of an opposition between those countries on the losing and those on the winning sides of globalisation. Inequalities beyond those between nations are critically absent from the debate. Based on major European statistical surveys, the new research in this work presents a map of social classes inspired by Pierre Bourdieu's sociology. It reveals the common features of the working class, the intermediate class and the privileged class in Europe. National features combine with social inequalities, through an account of the social distance between specific groups in nations in the North and in the countries of the South and East of Europe. The book ends with a reflection on the conditions that would be required for the emergence of a Europe-wide social movement.

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Politics and the Other Scene

By: Etienne Balibar

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Studies on Politics and Philosophy Before and After Marx

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Studies on Politics and Philosophy Before and After Marx

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Book's by Etienne Balibar

Spinoza and Politics

Spinoza and Politics

The Philosophy Of Marx

The Philosophy Of Marx

Politics and the Other Scene

Politics and the Other Scene

Identity and Difference

Identity and Difference

Reading Capital

Reading Capital

Spinoza, the Transindividual

Spinoza, the Transindividual

Spinoza, the Transindividual

Spinoza, the Transindividual

Identity and Difference

Identity and Difference

The Philosophy Of Marx

The Philosophy Of Marx

Masses, Classes, Ideas

Masses, Classes, Ideas

Spinoza and Politics

Spinoza and Politics

Social Class in Europe

Social Class in Europe

Politics and the Other Scene

Politics and the Other Scene

Masses, Classes, Ideas

Masses, Classes, Ideas

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