This volume, the first sustained critical work on the French political philosopher Étienne Balibar, collects essays by sixteen prominent philosophers, psychoanalysts, anthropologists, sociologists, and literary critics who each identify, define, and explore a central concept in Balibar’s thought. The result is a hybrid lexicon-engagement that makes clear the depth and importance of Balibar’s contribution to the most urgent topics in contemporary thought.
The book shows the continuing vitality of materialist thought across the humanities and social sciences and will be fundamental for understanding the philosophical bases of the contemporary left critique of globalization, neoliberalism, and the articulation of race, racism, and economic exploitation.
Contributors : Emily Apter, Étienne Balbar, J. M. Bernstein, Judith Butler, Monique David-Ménard, Hanan Elsayed, Didier Fassin, Stathis Gourgouris, Bernard E. Harcourt, Jacques Lezra, Patrice Maniglier, Warren Montag, Adi Ophir, Bruce Robbins, Ann Laura Stoler, Gary Wilder
Table of Content
Preface | vii
Introduction: Balibar and the Philosophy of the Concept
Warren Montag | 1
Anthropological
Bruce Robbins | 15
Border-Concept (of the Political)
Stathis Gourgouris | 28
Civil Religion: Secularism as Religion?
Judith Butler | 45
Concept
Étienne Balibar | 54
Contre- / Counter-
Bernard E. Harcourt | 71
Conversion
Monique David-Ménard | 85
Cosmopolitics
Emily Apter | 94
Interior Frontiers
Ann Laura Stoler | 117
Materialism
Patrice Maniglier | 140
The Political
Adi Ophir | 158
Punishment
Didier Fassin | 183
Race
Hanan Elsayed | 193
Relation
Jacques Lezra | 211
Rights
J. M. Bernstein | 230
Solidarity
Gary Wilder | 253
Bibliography | 275
List of Contributors | 311
Index | 315
About the author
Gary Wilder is a Professor of Anthropology, History, and French and Director of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke, 2015) and The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars (Chicago, 2005). He is co-editor of The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present (Fordham, 2018) and The Fernando Coronil Reader: The Struggle for Life Is the Matter (Duke, 2019).
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