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Étienne Balibar
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For Balibar, what this problem implies is that "the emergence of a
revolutionary form of subjectivity (or identity)... is never a
specific property of nature, and therefore brings with it no
guarantees, but obliges us to search for the conditions in a
conjuncture that can precipitate class struggles into mass
movements...". Moreover, "[t]here is no proof… that these forms are
always and eternally the same (for example, the party-form, or the
trade union."
^^^^^^^
CB: C'est vrai
^^^
Etienne Balibar
Full name Etienne Balibar
Born 23 April 1942 (1942-04-23) (age 68)
Avallon, Bourgogne, France
Era 20th / 21st-century philosophy
Region Western Philosophy
School Post-Marxism
Main interests Politics
Notable ideas equaliberty
Influenced by[show]
Karl Marx · Louis Althusser · Spinoza
Influenced[show]
Jacques Rancière · Slavoj Žižek
Étienne Balibar (born 23 April 1942 in Avallon, Yonne, Bourgogne) is a
French Marxist philosopher. After the death of his teacher Louis
Althusser, Balibar quickly became the leading exponent of French
Marxist philosophy.
Contents
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* 1 Life and work
* 2 Bibliography
o 2.1 Works in French
o 2.2 Selected translations
o 2.3 Online texts
* 3 External links
[edit] Life and work
Balibar first rose to prominence as one of Althusser's pupils at the
École Normale Supérieure. Balibar was a participant in Louis
Althusser's seminar on Karl Marx's Das Kapital. This seminar resulted
in the book entitled Reading Capital, coauthored by Althusser and his
students, among whom Althusser considered Balibar's contribution the
foremost. Balibar currently teaches philosophy and political theory at
Paris X Nanterre and University of California, Irvine.
In Masses, Classes and Ideas, Balibar argues that in Das Kapital, the
theory of historical materialism comes into conflict with the critical
theory that Marx begins to develop, particularly in his analysis of
the category of labor, which in capitalism, becomes a form of
property. This conflict involves two distinct uses of the term
"labor": labor as the revolutionary class subject (i.e., the
"proletariat") and labor as an objective condition for the
reproduction of capitalism (the "working class"). In The German
Ideology, Marx conflates these two meanings of labor, and treats labor
as, in Balibar’s words, the “veritable site of truth as well as the
place from which the world is changed..." In Capital, however, the
disparity between these two senses of labor becomes apparent. One
manifestation of this is the virtual disappearance in the text of the
term "proletariat." As Balibar points out, the term appears only twice
in the first edition of Capital, published in 1867: in the dedication
to Wilhelm Wolff and in the two final sections on the "General Law of
Capitalist Accumulation". For Balibar, what this problem implies is
that "the emergence of a revolutionary form of subjectivity (or
identity)... is never a specific property of nature, and therefore
brings with it no guarantees, but obliges us to search for the
conditions in a conjuncture that can precipitate class struggles into
mass movements...". Moreover, "[t]here is no proof… that these forms
are always and eternally the same (for example, the party-form, or the
trade union."
Balibar's daughter is the actress Jeanne Balibar.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Works in French
* 1965: Lire le Capital. With Louis Althusser et al.
* 1974: Cinq Etudes du Matérialisme Historique.
* 1976: Sur La Dictature du Prolétariat.
* 1985: Spinoza et la politique.
* 1988: Race, Nation, Classe. With Immanuel Wallerstein.
* 1991: Écrits pour Althusser.
* 1997: La crainte des masses.
* 1998: Droit de cité. Culture et politique en démocratie.
* 1999: Sans-papiers: l’archaïsme fatal.
* 2001: Nous, citoyens d’Europe? Les frontières, l’État, le peuple.
* 2003: L'Europe, l'Amérique, la Guerre. Réflexions sur la
médiation européenne.
* 2005: Europe, Constitution, Frontière.
[edit] Selected translations
* 1970: Reading Capital (London: NLB). With Louis Althusser.
Trans. Ben Brewster.
* 1977: On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (London: NLB).
Trans. Grahame Lock.
* 1991: Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities (London & New
York: Verso). With Immanuel Wallerstein. Trans. Chris Turner.
* 1994: Masses, Classes, Ideas: Studies on Politics and Philosophy
Before and After Marx (New York & London: Routledge). Trans. James
Swenson.
* 1995: The Philosophy of Marx (London & New York: Verso). Trans.
Chris Turner.
* 1998: Spinoza and Politics (London & New York: Verso). Trans.
Peter Snowdon.
* 2002: Politics and the Other Scene (London & New York: Verso).
Trans. Christine Jones, James Swenson & Chris Turner.
* 2004: We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational
Citizenship (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press). Trans.
James Swenson.
[edit] Online texts
* Theses for an Alter-Globalising Europe .
* Reading Capital (1968).
* Self-Criticism: Answers to Questions from Theoretical Practice (1973).
* On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (1977).
* At The Borders Of Europe (1999).
[edit] External links
* Selected bibliography (up to 1998).
* Review of We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational
Citizenship.
* Racisms, Migration & Citizenship in Europe: Etienne Balibar and
Sandro Mezzadra in Conversation (Audio-English) - darkmatter Journal,
5 Aug 2007.
* intervention d'Etienne Balibar & Moishe Postone Congrès Marx
International V : Altermondialisme/ anticapitalisme. Pour une
cosmopolitique alternative. Octobre 2007
* Debating with Alain Badiou on Universalism Opening statement,
2007 Koehn Event in Critical Theory. A dialogue between Alain Badiou
and Etienne Balibar on "Universalism", University of California
Irvine, February 2, 2007
* Etienne Balibar’s Lecture Spinoza’s Three Gods and the Modes of
Communication at the Conference of the Birkbeck Institute for the
Humanities Thinking with Spinoza: Politics, Philosophy and Religion,
7th & 8th May 2009 (podcast)
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Name Balibar, Etienne
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Date of birth 23 April 1942
Place of birth Avallon, Bourgogne, France
Date of death
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