Equaliberty : Political Essays

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balibar, Étienne, 1942-

Contributor:

Ingram, James.

Series:

a John Hope Franklin Center Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship.

Democracy.

Political science--Philosophy.

Citizenship--Philosophy.

Political science.

Local Subjects:

Citizenship.

Democracy.

Political science--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The preeminent political theorist Étienne Balibar examines what he calls ""equaliberty,"" the fundamental tension in modern democracies between equality and liberty, humanity and citizenship.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Introduction. The Antinomy of Citizenship; Part One. The Statement and Institution Of Rights; 1. The Proposition of Equaliberty; 2. The Reversal of Possessive Individualism; 3. New Reflections on Equaliberty: Two Lessons; Part Two. Sovereignty, Emancipation, Community (Some Critiques); 4. What Is Political Philosophy? Notes for a Topography; 5. Communism and Citizenship: On Nicos Poulantzas; 6. Hannah Arendt, the Right to Have Rights, and Civic Disobedience; 7. Populism and Politics: The Return of the Contract; Part Three. For A Democracy Without Exclusion

8. What Are the Excluded Excluded From?9. Dissonances within Laïcité: The New "Headscarf Affair"; 10. Secularism and Universality: The Liberal Paradox; 11. Uprisings in the Banlieues; 12. Toward Co-Citizenship; Conclusion. Resistance, Insurrection, Insubordination; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

ISBN:

9780822377221

0822377225

OCLC:

1153800249