Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein

Étienne Balibar

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

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. In this revised and augmented English translation of his 1985 classic, Spinoza et la Politique, Etienne Balibar presents a synoptic account of Spinoza's major works in relation to the political and historical conjuncture in which they were written. Balibar admirably demonstrates, through fine readings of the principal treatises, Spinoza's relevance to contemporary political life. In successive chapters Balibar he examines the political situation in the United Provinces during Spinoza's lifetime, Spinoza's own religious and ideological associations, the concept of democracy developed in the Theologico-Political Treatise, the theory of the state advanced in the Political Treatise and the anthropological basis for politics established in the Ethics. Written with supreme clarity and engaging liveliness, this book will appeal to specialists and general audiences alike. It is certain to become the standard introductory work on Spinoza, an indispensable guide to the intricacies of this most vital of the seventeenth-century rationalists.

Spinoza and Politics

In The Philosophy of Marx, Etienne Balibar provides an accessible introduction to Marx and his key followers, complete with pedagogical information for the student to make the most challenging areas of theory easy to understand. Examining all the key areas of Marx's writings in their wider historical and theoretical context--including the concepts of class struggle, ideology, humanism, progress, determinism, commodity fetishism, and the state--The Philosophy of Marx is a gateway into the thought of one of history's great minds.

Professor Emeritus of Moral and Political Philosophy Etienne Balibar

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