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We, the People of Europe?: Reflections on Transnational Citizenship
Etienne Balibar
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Description for We, the People of Europe?: Reflections on Transnational Citizenship
Paperback. Offers an analysis of "transnational citizenship" from the perspective of contemporary Europe. This title argues for the democratization of how immigrants and minorities in general are treated by the modern democratic state, and the need to reinvent what it means to be a citizen in an increasingly multicultural, diversified world. Translator(s): Swenson, James. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; JMA; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 460.
etienne Balibar has been one of Europe's most important philosophical and political thinkers since the 1960s. His work has been vastly influential on both sides of the Atlantic throughout the humanities and the social sciences. In We, the People of Europe?, he expands on themes raised in his previous works to offer a trenchant and eloquently written analysis of transnational citizenship from the perspective of contemporary Europe. Balibar moves deftly from state theory, national sovereignty, and debates on multiculturalism and European racism, toward imagining a more democratic and less state-centered European citizenship. Although European unification has progressively divorced ... Read more
etienne Balibar has been one of Europe's most important philosophical and political thinkers since the 1960s. His work has been vastly influential on both sides of the Atlantic throughout the humanities and the social sciences. In We, the People of Europe?, he expands on themes raised in his previous works to offer a trenchant and eloquently written analysis of transnational citizenship from the perspective of contemporary Europe. Balibar moves deftly from state theory, national sovereignty, and debates on multiculturalism and European racism, toward imagining a more democratic and less state-centered European citizenship. Although European unification has progressively divorced ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press New Jersey
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Series
Translation/Transnation
Condition
New
Weight
460g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691089904
SKU
V9780691089904
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About Etienne Balibar
Etienne Balibar is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-X and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. His previous books in English include Masses, Classes, Ideas, Politics and the Other Scene , Race, Nation, Class (with Immanuel Wallerstein), Reading Capital (with Louis Althusser), Spinoza and Politics , and ... Read more
Reviews for We, the People of Europe?: Reflections on Transnational Citizenship
Balibar tackles a wide range of themes associated with a dialectic of the construction of 'Europe.' ... The writing is clear, informed, and provocative.
Choice There is much merit to this book as a work of political philosophy, inasmuch as it provides new analyses of the concept of sovereignty and develops new ideas about the nature of citizenship under ... Read more
Choice There is much merit to this book as a work of political philosophy, inasmuch as it provides new analyses of the concept of sovereignty and develops new ideas about the nature of citizenship under ... Read more