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Citizen Subject: Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology

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Description for Citizen Subject: Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology Paperback. Translator(s): Miller, Steven. Series: Commonalities. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JHMP; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 254 x 39. Weight in Grams: 770.
What can the universals of political philosophy offer to those who experience the living paradox of an inegalitarian construction of egalitarian citizenship ? Citizen Subject is the summation of Etienne Balibar's career-long project to think the necessary and necessarily antagonistic relation between the categories of citizen and subject. In this magnum opus, the question of modernity is framed anew with special attention to the self-enunciation of the subject (in Descartes, Locke, Rousseau, and Derrida), the constitution of the community as we (in Hegel, Marx, and Tolstoy), and the aporia of the judgment of self and others (in ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Commonalities
Condition
New
Weight
769g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823273614
SKU
V9780823273614
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About Etienne Balibar
Etienne Balibar is Professor Emeritus of Moral and Political Philosophy at Universite de Paris X-Nanterre; Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine; and Visiting Professor of French at Columbia University. His many books in English include Citizen Subject: Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology (Fordham, 2016), Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy (Columbia, 2016); Equaliberty: Political ... Read more

Reviews for Citizen Subject: Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology
The appearance of this book in France was something of a historic event. Under the heading of 'universality,' a concept that Balibar has almost single-handedly salvaged, Citizen Subject tries to rethink political belonging in our time, so as to redeem a humanism capable of contesting itself from the inside and available to serve the struggles of our day. Balibar ... Read more

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