Étienne Balibar

Equaliberty

Political Essays

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First published in French in 2010, Equaliberty brings together essays by Étienne Balibar, one of the preeminent political theorists of our time. The book is organized around equaliberty, a term coined by Balibar to connote the tension between the two ideals of modern democracy: equality (social rights and political representation) and liberty (the freedom citizens have to contest the social contract). He finds the tension between these different kinds of rights to be ingrained in the constitution of the modern nation-state and the contemporary welfare state. At the same time, he seeks to keep rights discourse open, eschewing natural entitleme… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8223-5564-9
EAN: 9780822355649
Produktnummer: 15155260
Verlag: Duke University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 376 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.0 cm 544 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 544

Über den Autor

etienne Balibar was a student of Louis Althusser, with whom he cowrote Reading Capital. The author of many books on moral and political philosophy, he is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Universite de Paris-X Nanterrre and Anniversary Chair in the Humanities at Kingston University in London. He has served as Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, and, more recently, as Visiting Professor at Columbia University.