Etienne balibar is a french marxist philosopher and the most celebrated student of louis althusser. Spinoza and politics radical thinkers balibar, etienne on. Balibar e 2002 ambiguous universality, reprinted as chapter 8 in politics. Etienne balibar, being a prolific marxist philosopher, seems very much in his element in spinozas system. Download department of political science yale university book pdf free download link or read online here in pdf. Althusser via etienne balibar and gilles deleuze to antonio negris recent critique of.
Political treatise shirley translation etienne balibar, spinoza and politics jonathan israel, radical enlightenment w. Spinoza now, the first broadly interdisciplinary volume dealing with spinozan thought, asserts. Etienne balibar ideology after the end of ideologies. Pdf in this interview, balibar provides a number of reflections on the. As a contribution to the debate on the future of philosophy as an autonomous. Balibar, etienne 2015 etienne balibar on the trace of althusser in foucault s penal theories and.
In this interview, balibar provides a number of reflections on the articulation of different. In spinoza and politics, balibar explores the thought of spinoza with a zeal and alacrity that brings home many of spinozas timeless ideas in political philosophy, even for those who have never read spinoza himself. Spinoza and politics etienne balibar, warren montag. Capital with louis althusser, spinoza and politics, and the philosophy of marx. Balibar sets himself the task of elucidating the intersection, or unity, between spinoza s metaphysics and his political works. 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. Article information, pdf download for etienne balibar in conversation. Smith, spinoza, liberalism and the question of jewish. The political thought of etienne balibar is framed between transindividuality. He is also one of the leading exponents of french marxist philosophy and the author of spinoza and politics, the philosophy of marx and coauthor of race, nation and class and reading capital. I had only read bits of spinoza s ethics when i read this book, and the bits i had read. Balibar believes that spinoza s political works are already a metaphysics an ontology of powers and their relations and his metaphysics are already a politics again. 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. Department of political science yale university pdf book.
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