Description
Book SynopsisIf fundamental political categories were represented as geometric shapes, citizenship would be one of those rotating polyhedrons with reflective surfaces that together create effects of light and shade.
Trade Review"Citizenship can only truly exist as insurrection. Democracy must be democratized. These are the daring propositions that Balibar, Marxism�s least pious philosopher, nails to the door of neoliberalism�s church."
Bruce Robbins, Columbia University
"Activists and specialists alike should read this book.......the book is a genuine contribution to radical thought."
Marx and Philosophy
"Balibar abjures any temptation to elementary or utopian prescriptions, instead offering a set of useful theoretical propositions for how democracy may be 'democratized' for the twenty-first century."
Political Studies Review
Table of ContentsForeword
Democracy and Citizenship: An Antinomic Relationship
Aequa Libertas
From Social Citizenship to the Social-National State
Citizenship and Exclusion
The Aporia of Conflictual Democracy
Neo-Liberalism and De-Democratization
Democratizing Democracy
