This book gathers together for the first time in English nine of Balibar’s most influential essays written over the past decade. Together, they offer a provocative contribution to the project…

Most readers of Louis Althusser first enter his work through his writings on ideology. In an important new essay Etienne Balibar, friend and colleague of Althusser, offers an original reading…

Revealing the explicit relationships among globalization, capitalism, and barbarism to rid our world of violence once and for all.

Etienne Balibar explores the tensions between cosmopolitanism and secularism in order to advance a truly democratic and emancipatory cosmopolitanism, which requires a secularization of secularism. Going beyond circumscribed notions of…

Vittorio Morfino draws out the implications of the dynamic Spinoza Machiavelli encounter by focusing on the concepts of causality, temporality and politics. This allows him to think through the relationship…

This volume, the first sustained critical work on the French political philosopher Etienne Balibar, collects essays by sixteen prominent philosophers, psychoanalysts, anthropologists, sociologists, and literary critics who each identify, define…

Revisiting Guy Debord’s seminal work, The Society of the Spectacle (1967), Eric-John Russell breathes new life into a text which directly preceded and informed the revolutionary fervour of May 1968…

Essays by major contemporary figures in political philosophy, anthropology, and cultural studies presenting an original reflection on the question what is a particular concept (classic concepts in politics as well…