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.

The Philosophy of Marx

Louis Althusser

Reading Capital

Mark G. E. Kelly

Spinoza, the Transindividual

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Studies on Politics and Philosophy Before and After Marx

Masses, Classes, Ideas

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.

Politics and the Other Scene

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.

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.

John Locke And The Invention Of Consciousness

Identity And Difference

Jean Baudrillard

Jacques Ranciere

Various

Edward W. Said

Georg Lukacs

Radical Thinkers Set 8 (Shrinkwrapped)

Pierre Macherey

Roger Establet

Kapitali Okumak

Fredric Jameson

Immanuel Wallerstein

Guy Debord

Jeremy Bentham

Verso Books

Sebastiano Timpanaro

This shrinkwrapped set contains twelve Verso Radical Thinkers volumes at a discounted price: Machiavelli and Us by Louis Althusser Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities by Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein Passwords by Jean Baudrillard The Panopticon Writings by Jeremy Bentham Comments on the Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord Design and Crime (And Other Diatribes) by Hal Foster Critique of Economic Reason by Andre Gorz Brecht and Method by Fredric Jameson The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde by Peter Osborne Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory by Edward W. Soja Freudian Slip: Psychoanalysis and Textual Criticism by Sebastiano Timpanaro Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left by Slavoj Zizek, Ernesto Laclau, and Judith Butler

Radical Thinkers

Jacques Rancière

"Une lecture philosophique du Capital n'est possible que comme l'application de ce qui est l'objet même de notre recherche, la philosophie de Marx dans les oeuvres du marxisme. Il s'agit donc de produire, au sens précis du mot qui semble signifier : rendre manifeste ce qui est latent ; mais qui veut dire transformer ce qui en un sens, existe déjà. Cette production, dans le double sens qui donne à l'opération de production la forme nécessaire d'un cercle, est la production d'une connaissance. Concevoir dans sa spécificité la philosophie de Marx est donc concevoir l'essence du mouvement même par lequel est produite sa connaissance ou concevoir la connaissance comme production."

Lire Le Capital

Ce volume rassemble les principales études consacrées par Etienne Balibar à la philosophie de Spinoza, dans son rapport intrinsèque à la politique. Partant de la thèse que Spinoza avait reprise de Tacite (la "crainte des masses"), il aboutit à une interprétation renouvelée des modes de communication et des genres de vie, que résume la triple explication du Nom divin : Dieu c'est la Loi, Dieu c'est l'Homme, Dieu c'est la Nature. Pour accomplir cette transition, il faut parcourir plusieurs espaces théoriques : la construction de la démocratie comme limite des régimes étatiques, où s'exprime la puissance de l'être en commun ; l'ontologie du transindividuel, qui affirme le primat de la relation sur l'être isolé ; enfin la constitution du sujet comme une conscience recherchant l'intelligence des affections de son propre corps. Cette enquête permet alors d'approfondir la conception de l'anthropologie philosophique que l'auteur défend dans le cadre du débat contemporain sur l'actualité du spinozisme.

Le transindividuel

Spinoza politique

From Individuality to Transindividuality

Spinoza

Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein

Professor Emeritus of Moral and Political Philosophy Etienne Balibar

Senior Researcher Immanuel Wallerstein

'Race, Nation, Class' is a key dialogue on identity and nationalism by major critics of capitalism.

Ambiguous Identities

Race, Nation, Class

Etienne Balibar

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