{"product_id":"equaliberty-9780822355502","title":"Equaliberty","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe preeminent political theorist Étienne Balibar examines what he calls \"equaliberty,\" the fundamental tension in modern democracies between equality and liberty, humanity and citizenship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\". . . this is a timely publication. It identifies and expands upon a crucial tension within liberal citizenship that runs through the course of history, but which seems particularly prescient today, especially within Europe. . . .  Rare for a book with such a philosophical argument, the connection to these issues is clear and prescient. Indeed, this continual problematization of the conditions for citizenship might be considered to be an exemplary manifestation of what it means to be a critical citizen.\" -- Jonathan Joseph * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\"This outstanding book is Étienne Balibar at his most powerfully synthetic and politically incisive. In \u003ci\u003eEqualiberty\u003c\/i\u003e Balibar works his way through the house of left-wing political thought, performing a sort of philosophical spring cleaning. He disarticulates complex concepts only to reassemble them in better, more usable combinations. It is a call to action.\"—\u003cb\u003eBruce Robbins\u003c\/b\u003e, author of\u003ci\u003e Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a wonderful speculative text in the best tradition of French political philosophy. But it is not only this: Balibar is also in dialogue with problems of leftist American social and political philosophy and especially its focus on the violences of neoliberalism. Finally, in a style that, by design, knows no country, Balibar’s Equaliberty works to update the enduring insights of Marx and Marxism in a deep reflection for our times.\" -- Amy E. Wendling * Marx \u0026amp; Philosophy Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"Today many of the key concepts of our political vocabulary—including equality, freedom, democracy, and emancipation—seem so corrupted and vacuous that they are almost unusable. Étienne Balibar makes an important contribution by engaging critically and restoring these and other crucial political concepts. \u003ci\u003eEqualiberty\u003c\/i\u003e is a major book that displays Balibar's exemplary combination of erudition and clear, accessible argument.\"—\u003cb\u003eMichael Hardt\u003c\/b\u003e, coauthor of the books\u003ci\u003e Declaration\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCommonwealth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMultitude\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEmpire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Balibar may accept the frameworks and language of really existing capitalism, but he does so in order to pull at their threads and to refocus critique upon tired concepts. But a revolutionary fervour (although this too does not escape theorizing) runs throughout these essays. . . . It is Balibar’s persuasive analysis of who counts as a citizen and who does not, and who is granted rights and who must take them another way, that makes these essays.”  -- Nina Power * Radical Philosophy *\u003cbr\u003e“A well-written, if still extremely dense, collection of theoretical investigations that lead towards more than just mere armchair philosophising; rather, to a motivated call for sophisticated and impassioned activism through normative research agendas for graduate students and academic professionals, specifically focusing on the future of cosmopolitics and trans-\/de-nationalised notions of citizenship.” -- Bryant William Sculos * Political Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. The Antimony of Citizenship 1\u003cbr\u003e Part One. The Statement and Institution of Rights 33\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Proposition of Equaliberty 35\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Reversal of Possessive Individualism 67\u003cbr\u003e 3. New Reflections on Equaliberty: Two Lessons 99\u003cbr\u003e Part Two. Sovereignty, Emancipation, Community (Some Critiques) 133\u003cbr\u003e 4. What Is Political Philosophy? Notes For a Topography 135\u003cbr\u003e 5. Communism and Citizenship: On Nicos Poulantzas 145\u003cbr\u003e 6. Hannah Arendt, the Right to Have Rights, and Civil Disobedience 165\u003cbr\u003e 7. Populism and Politics: The Return of the Contract 187\u003cbr\u003e Part Three. For a Democracy Without Exclusion 197\u003cbr\u003e 8. What Are the Excluded Excluded From? 199\u003cbr\u003e 9. Dissonances within \u003ci\u003eLaïcité\u003c\/i\u003e: The New \"Headscarf Affair\" 209\u003cbr\u003e 10. Secularism and Universality: The Liberal Paradox 223\u003cbr\u003e 11. Uprisings in the \u003ci\u003eBanlieues\u003c\/i\u003e 231\u003cbr\u003e 12. Toward Co-Citizenship 259\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Resistance, Insurrection, Insubordination 277\u003cbr\u003e Notes 295\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited 343\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406077862231,"sku":"9780822355502","price":112.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822355502.jpg?v=1730494450","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/equaliberty-9780822355502","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}