Étienne Balibar

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Étienne Balibar (born April 23, 1942 in Avallon ) is a French philosopher and well-known thinker of post-Marxism .

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Life

Étienne Balibar was born in Avallon, France, in 1942. From 1960 he studied at the Ecole normal supérieure (ENS), where he became a student and collaborator of Louis Althusser , an influential Marxist theorist of the 20th century.

Balibar was a member of the French Communist Party (PCF) from 1961 . However, he was expelled from the party after criticizing its migration policy in one of his articles.

He received his doctorate in philosophy in 1987 from the Catholic University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. He completed his habilitation in 1993 at the Universitè Paris I. From 1994 he taught political philosophy and moral philosophy as a professor at the University of Paris-X (Nanterre) , where he has been retired since 2002.

From the 1990s he also taught at several universities in the USA, around 2000 at the University of California, Irvine, and was visiting professor for French and comparative literature at Columbia University in New York in 2017 .

Together with the physicist Françoise Balibar, he has a daughter, the actress Jeanne Balibar .

Positions and work

Balibar developed a series of works on the foundations of Marx's theory and political philosophy. Important publications by Balibar were the Five Studies on Historical Materialism (Paris 1974), Race, Class, Nation (with Immanuel Wallerstein , Berlin 1990), and The Limits of Democracy (Hamburg 1993). Above all, Balibar advocates the project of "equal freedom", in which equality and freedom go hand in hand within a radical democracy .

Balibar has worked out three levels of general :

  • the real , globalization : many people are increasingly dependent on the world market;
  • that of fiction , he speaks of church and state , as imaginary communities : it regulates ideological fiction;
  • that of the ideal , with a demand for égaliberté , as a possible moment of politics that can never be completely negated or satisfied.

In his article "Is there such a thing as 'neo-racism'?" (1988) he works out how racism in Europe (in the context of intra-European migration and before the experience of colonialism) developed around the complex of immigration and has become racism without race . The theme of this racism is no longer the biological inheritance or the superiority of certain groups or peoples over others, but the irreversibility of cultural differences, the harmfulness of any confusion of borders and the incompatibility of traditions and ways of life.

Awards

See also

Works

  • With Louis Althusser : Lire le Capital , 2 volumes, Maspero, Paris 1968, ISBN 2-7071-0230-X .
  • Sur la Dictature du proletariat . Maspero, Paris 1976, ISBN 2-7071-0863-4 .
    • Übers. Rolf Löper, Klaus Riepe, Peter Schöttler : About the dictatorship of the proletariat. With documents of the 22nd party congress of the PCF . VSA, Hamburg 1976, ISBN 3-87975-097-1 .
  • With Immanuel Wallerstein : Race, nation, classe: les identités ambigues , La Découverte, Paris 1988, ISBN 2-7071-1777-3 .
    • Übers. Michael Haupt, Ilse Utz: Race class nation. Ambivalent identities . Argument, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-88619-386-1 .
  • Ecrits pour Althusser , La Découverte, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-7071-2021-9 .
  • Les frontieres de la democratie . La Découverte, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-7071-2105-3 .
    • German: The limits of democracy. , Argument, Hamburg 1993.
  • La philosophie de Marx , 1993.
  • La crainte des masses , Galilée, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-7186-0462-X .
  • Nous, citoyens d'Europe ?: Les Frontières, l'Etat, le peuple , La Découverte, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-7071-3460-0 .
    • German: Are we citizens of Europe? : Political integration, social exclusion and the future of the national , Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-930908-86-7 .
  • La proposition de l'égaliberté: essais politiques, 1989–2009 , Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 2010.
    • Übers. Christine Pries: Equality: Political Essays . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2012, ISBN 3-518-58586-X .
  • Übers. Frieder Otto Wolf: Europe: Crisis and End? . Westphalian steam boat, Münster 2016, ISBN 978-3-89691-842-0 .
  • Of the universe. Essais et conférences . Éditions Galilée, Paris 2016.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Etienne Balibar is the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought 2017 | Heinrich Böll Foundation . In: Heinrich Böll Foundation . ( boell.de [accessed on March 26, 2018]).
  2. ↑ See Balibar 2012.
  3. ↑ See Balibar 1990: 28. In: Étienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein. Race, class, nation . Ambivalent identities. Hamburg: Argument Verlag, pp. 23-38
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SURNAME Balibar, Etienne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Avallon