Professor Etienne Balibar
Faculties, departments and locations
- Kingston School of Art
- Department of Humanities
- School of Creative and Cultural Industries
- Penrhyn Road
Visiting Professor in Modern European Philosophy
- Email:
- e.balibar@kingston.ac.uk
About
I graduated in Philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Sorbonne in Paris (1964). I have a PhD from Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (Netherlands) (1987) and Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (1993). I have been teaching at Universities of Algiers, Paris 1, Leiden, Paris 10-Nanterre, Buenos-Aires, U.C. Irvine, and Columbia University in New York.
Qualifications
- Agrégation de Philosophie 1964
- PhD, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen
- Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Domains
My research interests include political philosophy from Aristotle to Arendt through Spinoza, Hegel and Marx, recent and contemporary French Philosophy (especially Althusser, Foucault, Derrida, Blanchot), the question of critique with special reference to religion and political economy, racism and nationalism. I recently published a book on secularism and cosmopolitanism (Saeculum. Religion, Culture, Idéologie, 2012, English translation forthcoming with Columbia University Press) and a book on conflicting universalities (Des universels, 2016, English translation forthcoming with Fordham University Press).
Publications
Des universels : essais et conferences
Balibar, Etienne (2016). Paris, France: (Editions Galilee)
Europe, crise et fin?
Balibar, Etienne (2016). Lormont, France: (Editions Le Bord de l'Eau)
Autorité et démocratie: l'exercice du pouvoir dans les sociétés modernes
Boccon-Gibod, Thomas and Balibar, Etienne (2014). (Institut Universitaire Varenne)
Il transindividuale. Soggetti, relazioni, mutazioni
(2014). Milan, Italy: (Mimesis)
L'autre citoyen : L'idéal républicain et les Antilles après l'esclavage
Larcher, Silyane and Balibar, Etienne (2014). Paris, France: (Armand Colin)
Identity and difference: John Locke and the invention of consciousness
(2013). London, U.K.: (Verso Books)
Saeculum: religion, culture, ideologie
Balibar, Etienne (2012). Paris, France: (Editions Galilée)
Citoyen sujet et autres essais d'anthropologie philosophique
Balibar, Etienne (2011). Paris, France: (Presses Universitaires de France)
La proposition de l'égaliberte: essais politique, 1989–2009
Balibar, Etienne (2010). Paris, France: (Presses Universitaires de France)
Dying one's own death : Freud with Rilke
Balibar, Étienne, 2022, Angelaki (27), 1, pp 128-139
Ontological difference, anthropological difference, and equal liberty
Balibar, Etienne, 2020, European Journal of Philosophy (28), 1, pp 3-14
Sur l'expropriation des expropriateurs
Balibar, Etienne, 2018, Revue de metaphysique et de morale (100), 4, pp 479-490
Fremde, nicht Feinde. In Richtung eines neuen Kosmopolitismus?
Balibar, Etienne, 2017, Allgemeine Zeitschrift fur Philosophie (42), pp 127-143
Critique in the 21st century : political economy still, and religion again
Balibar, Etienne, 2016, Radical Philosophy (200), pp 11-21
Apres la fin de l'Europe
Balibar, Etienne, 2016, Vacarme (74), pp 153-158
Democratisations
Balibar, Etienne, 2016, Vacarme, pp 136-141
Europe at the limits
Balibar, Etienne, 2016, Interventions (18), 2, pp 165-171
Foucault's point of heresy : 'Quasi-Transcendentals' and the transdisciplinary function of the episteme
Balibar, Etienne, 2015, (32), 5-6, pp 45-77
Althusser's dramaturgy and the critique of ideology
Balibar, Etienne, 2015, Differences (26), 3, pp 1-22
D'un extrême l'autre: par quelle conversion?
Balibar, Etienne, 2014, Cahiers Maurice Blanchot, 3, pp 9-19
The rise and fall of the European Union: temporalities and teleologies
Balibar, Etienne, 2014, Constellations (21), 2, pp 202-212
Un nouvel élan, mais pour quelle Europe?
Balibar, Etienne, 2014, Le Monde Diplomatique, pp 16-17
Politics of the debt
Balibar, Etienne, 2013, Postmodern Culture (23), 3
Spinoza's three gods and the modes of communication
Balibar, Etienne, 2012, European Journal of Philosophy (20), 1, pp 26-49
Cosmopolitanism and secularism: controversial legacies and prospective interrogations
Balibar, Etienne, 2011, Grey Room, 44, pp 6-25
Antinomies of citizenship
Balibar, Etienne, 2010, Journal of Romance Studies (10), 2, pp 1-20
Anarchism, philosophy and the state today : a conversation
Balibar, Étienne and Malabou, Catherine (2022). Afterlives : transcendentals, universals, others. Kingston upon Thames, U.K.: CRMEP Books, pp 163-186
Belonging to the human race : one as many
Balibar, Étienne (2022). In: Osborne, Peter, (ed.), Afterlives : transcendentals, universals, others. Kingston upon Thames, U.K.: CRMEP Books, pp 41-57
Towards a new critique of political economy : from generalized surplus value to total subsumption
Balibar, Étienne (2019). In: Osborne, Peter, (eds.), Alliez, Éric, (eds.) and Russell, Eric-John, (eds.), Capitalism : concept, idea, image - aspects of Marx's 'Capital' today. Kingston, U.K.: CRMEP Books, pp 36-57
Marxism and the idea of revolution : the Messianic moment in Marx
Balibar, Etienne (2015). In: Truper, Henning, (eds.), Chakrabarty, Dipesh, (eds.) and Subrahmanyam, Sanjay, (eds.), Historical teleologies in the modern world. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 235-250
Dall’anthropologia filosofica all’ontologia sociale e ritorno: che fare con la sesta tesi di Marx su Feuerbach?
Balibar, Etienne (2014). In: Balibar, Etienne, (eds.) and Morfino, Vittorio, (eds.), Il transindividuale. Soggetti, relazioni, mutazioni. Milan, Italy: Mimesis, pp 147-178
Europe - nations: the missing people and the crisis of legitimacy
Balibar, Etienne (2014). In: Baier, Walter, (eds.), Canepa, Eric, (eds.) and Himmelstoss, Eva, (eds.), United Europe, Divided Europe: Transform! 2015. London, U.K.: Merlin Press
Indignité
Balibar, Etienne (2014). In: Thiery, Sebastien, (ed.), Considérant qu’il est plausible que de tels événements puissent à nouveau survenir. Sur l’art municipal de détruire un bidonville. Fécamp, France: Post-Éditions
L'instance de la lettre
Balibar, Etienne (2014). In: Buttgen, Philippe, (eds.), Gendreau-Massaloux, Michele, (eds.) and North, Xavier, (eds.), Les pluriels de Barbara Cassin ou le partage des équivoques. Lormont, France: Le Bord de l'eau
Nancy's inoperative community
Balibar, Etienne (2014). In: Conley, Verena A., (eds.) and Goh, Irving, (eds.), Nancy now. Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press, pp 20-36
Pour une nouvelle épistémê
Djerbal, Daho and Balibar, Etienne (2014). In: Brun, Catherine, (ed.), Guerre d'Algérie: les mots pour la dire. Paris, France: CNRS Éditions, pp 255-286
The rise and fall of the European Union: temporalities and teleologies
Balibar, Etienne (2014). In: Koskenniemi, Martti, (eds.) and Strath, Bo, (eds.), Europe 1815-1914: creating community and ordering the world. Helsinki, Finland: University of Helsinki, pp 186-199
Ouverture: l’antinomie de la citoyennete
Balibar, Etienne (2010). In: Balibar, Etienne, (ed.), La proposition de l'égaliberte: essais politique, 1989–2009. Paris, France: Presses Universitaires de France, pp 11-52
To speak the universal in a universal context : why is it problematic?
Balibar, Etienne(2018). In: Exemplarity, authority, universalizability : how is a geopolitics of philosophy to be conceptualised?, 04 May 2018 :Kingston upon Thames, U.K.
Europa reale versus Europa sociale
Balibar, Etienne(2013). In: Capitalismo finaziario globale e democrazia in Europa, 24-26 Oct 2013 :Rome, Italy