Violence and Civility

Informationen zum Autor Étienne Balibar is emeritus professor of philosophy at Paris X Nanterre and emeritus professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine. He is currently professor of modern European philosophy at Kingston University, London, and visiting professor at Columbia University. His books include Reading Capital (with Louis Althusser); Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identites (with Immanuel Wallerstein); The Philosophy of Marx; Spinoza and Politics; and Equaliberty: Political Essays Klappentext Through a novel synthesis of theory and empirical studies of violence drawn from contemporary life, Balibar tests the limits of political philosophy to formulate new, productive conceptions of war, revolution, sovereignty, and class. Using the pathbreaking thought of Derrida as a starting point, Balibar designs a topography of cruelty converted into extremism by ideology, juxtaposing its subjective forms (identity delusions, the desire for extermination, and the pursuit of vengeance) and its objective manifestations (capitalist exploitation and an institutional disregard for life). Through a lively engagement with Marx, Hegel, Hobbes, Clausewitz, Schmitt, and Luxemburg, Balibar advances a new understanding of politics as antiviolence and a fresh approach to achieving and sustaining civility. Rooted in the principles of transformation and empowerment, Balibar's versatile theory brings hope to a world increasingly divided by difference even as it draws closer together. Zusammenfassung Revealing the explicit relationships among globalization! capitalism! and barbarism to rid our world of violence once and for all.

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• Authors: Etienne Balibar, Étienne Balibar
• Assisted by: G. M. Goshgarian (Translation), G.M. Goshgarian (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.06.2015
• EAN: 9780231153980
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15398-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 238 mm x 21 mm
• Series: The Wellek Library Lectures; Wellek Library Lectures (COUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination