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Duke University Press Equaliberty Political Essays by Etienne Balibar, Translated by James Ingram
First Published In French In 2010, Equaliberty Brings Together Essays By Etienne 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 Entitlements In Favor Of A Deterritorialized Citizenship That Could Be Expanded And Invented Anew In The Age Of Globalization. Deeply Engaged With Other Thinkers, Including Arendt, Ranciere, And Laclau, He Posits A Theory Of The Polity Based On Social Relations. In Equaliberty Balibar Brings Both The Continental And Analytic Philosophical Traditions To Bear On The Conflicted Relations Between Humanity And Citizenship. Table Of Contents : - Foreword Viiintroduction. The Antimony Of Citizenship 1Part One. The Statement And Institution Of Rights 331. The Proposition Of Equaliberty 352. The Reversal Of Possessive Individualism 673. New Reflections On Equaliberty: Two Lessons 99Part Two. Sovereignty, Emancipation, Community (Some Critiques) 1334. What Is Political Philosophy? Notes For A Topography 1355. Communism And Citizenship: On Nicos Poulantzas 1456. Hannah Arendt, The Right To Have Rights, And Civil Disobedience 1657. Populism And Politics: The Return Of The Contract 187Part Three. For A Democracy Without Exclusion 1978. What Are The Excluded Excluded From? 1999. Dissonances Within Laicite: The New "Headscarf Affair" 20910. Secularism And Universality: The Liberal Paradox 22311. Uprisings In The Banlieues 23112. Toward Co-Citizenship 259Conclusion. Resistance, Insurrection, Insubordination 277Notes 295Works Cited 343Index