Contributor Archive: Étienne Balibar
How can the aporia of the ‘European people’ be resolved?
Dossier: The Greek Symptom: Debt, Crisis and the Crisis of the Left
by Étienne Balibar / RP 181 (Sept/Oct 2013) / Article, Dossier, The Greek Symptom
The question that I deal with here is by no means a purely speculative one. It certainly evokes theoretical notions from different disciplines and from philosophy, but it does so because of a specific economy of circumstances, a crisis of economics, in a particular place (Greece), which happens to be at the origin of the …
Lenin and Gandhi
A missed encounter?
by Étienne Balibar / RP 172 (Mar/Apr 2012) / Article
The theme I shall address today has all the trappings of an academic exercise.* Still, I would like to attempt to show how it intersects with several major historical, epistemological and ultimately political questions. As a basis for the discussion, I will posit that Lenin and Gandhi are the two greatest figures among revolutionary theorist–practitioners …
Structure: method or subversion of the social sciences?
From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought (1)
by Étienne Balibar / RP 165 (Jan/Feb 2011) / Article, Dossier, From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought
It seems there’s no longer any real doubt as to the answer to this question, and that it is doubly negative. ‘Structuralism’, or what was designated as such mainly in France in the 1960s and 1970s (setting aside the question of other uses), is no longer regarded as a truly fertile method in the domains …
Marxism and war
by Étienne Balibar / RP 160 (Mar/Apr 2010) / Article
War for Marxism is not exactly a concept, but it is certainly a problem.* While Marxism could not invent a concept of war, it could re-create it, so to speak – that is, introduce the question of war into its own problematic, and produce a Marxist critiqueof war, or a critical theory of warfare, war …
A Mediterranean way for peace in Israel–Palestine?
by Étienne Balibar and Jean-Marc Levy-Leblond / RP 140 (Nov/Dec 2006) / Commentary
Vocabulary of European Philosophies, Part 1 (Subject)
Subject
by Peter Osborne, Étienne Balibar, Barbara Cassin and Alain de Libera / RP 138 (Jul/Aug 2006) / Article
Étienne Balibar, Barbara Cassin, Alain de Libera
Introduction by Peter Osborne.
‘The history of truth’
Alain Badiou in French philosophy
by Étienne Balibar / RP 115 (Sep/Oct 2002) / Article
Étienne Balibar
Conjectures and conjunctures
by Étienne Balibar and Peter Osborne / RP 097 (Sep/Oct 1999) / Interview
How can the aporia of the ‘European people’ be resolved?
Dossier: The Greek Symptom: Debt, Crisis and the Crisis of the Left
by Étienne Balibar / RP 181 (Sept/Oct 2013) / Article, Dossier, The Greek Symptom
The question that I deal with here is by no means a purely speculative one. It certainly evokes theoretical notions from different disciplines and from philosophy, but it does so because of a specific economy of circumstances, a crisis of economics, in a particular place (Greece), which happens to be at the origin of the …
Lenin and Gandhi
A missed encounter?by Étienne Balibar / RP 172 (Mar/Apr 2012) / Article
The theme I shall address today has all the trappings of an academic exercise.* Still, I would like to attempt to show how it intersects with several major historical, epistemological and ultimately political questions. As a basis for the discussion, I will posit that Lenin and Gandhi are the two greatest figures among revolutionary theorist–practitioners …
Structure: method or subversion of the social sciences?
From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought (1)
by Étienne Balibar / RP 165 (Jan/Feb 2011) / Article, Dossier, From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought
It seems there’s no longer any real doubt as to the answer to this question, and that it is doubly negative. ‘Structuralism’, or what was designated as such mainly in France in the 1960s and 1970s (setting aside the question of other uses), is no longer regarded as a truly fertile method in the domains …
Marxism and war
by Étienne Balibar / RP 160 (Mar/Apr 2010) / ArticleWar for Marxism is not exactly a concept, but it is certainly a problem.* While Marxism could not invent a concept of war, it could re-create it, so to speak – that is, introduce the question of war into its own problematic, and produce a Marxist critiqueof war, or a critical theory of warfare, war …
A Mediterranean way for peace in Israel–Palestine?
by Étienne Balibar and Jean-Marc Levy-Leblond / RP 140 (Nov/Dec 2006) / CommentaryVocabulary of European Philosophies, Part 1 (Subject)
Subject
by Peter Osborne, Étienne Balibar, Barbara Cassin and Alain de Libera / RP 138 (Jul/Aug 2006) / Article
Étienne Balibar, Barbara Cassin, Alain de Libera
Introduction by Peter Osborne.
‘The history of truth’
Alain Badiou in French philosophyby Étienne Balibar / RP 115 (Sep/Oct 2002) / Article
Étienne Balibar
Conjectures and conjuncturesby Étienne Balibar and Peter Osborne / RP 097 (Sep/Oct 1999) / Interview