Balibar bio & publications

UCI Distinguished Professor of Critical Theory,
French & Italian, and Comparative Literature
Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy, Université de Paris X Nanterre
Senior Fellow, The School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell U

Professor Balibar is Ancien Elève of the Ecole Normale Supérieure with a doctorate in Philosophy. He teaches political philosophy at the University of Paris-X at Nanterre, and in 2000 was appointed as a Distinguished Professor in Critical Theory at UCI. He is the co-director of the series Pratiques Théoriques at the Presses Universitaires de France and the author of numerous books and critical essays on political philosophy, Marxism, and anthropologial philosophy. His current research focuses on issues of citizenship, racism and subjectivation. Many of his publications are compiled in a Bibliography prepared by Dr. E. Yeghiayan for Professor Balibar’s 1996 Wellek Library Lecture, “On Politics and History: Presence, Cruelty, and the Universals,” rephrased as Extreme Violence and the Problem of Civility forthcoming from Columbia UP.

Selected Publications
We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship. Tr. James Swenson, forthcoming.
Nous, citoyens d'Europe? Les frontières, l'Etat, le peuple. Paris: Editions La Découverte, 2001.
Sans-papiers: l'archaïsme fatal (with J. Costa-Lascoux, M. Chemillier-Gendreau, E. Terray). Paris: Editions La Découverte, 1999.
Identité et différence. Le chapitre II, xxvii de l'Essay concerning Human Understanding de Locke. L'invention de la conscience. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1998.
Droit de cité. Culture et politique en démocratie. Editions de l'Aube, 1998.
La crainte des masses. Politique et phlosophie avant et après Marx. Paris: Editions Galilée, 1997.
Spinoza and Politics. Tr. Peter Snowdon. New York: Verso, 1998.
The Philosophy of Marx. Trans. Chris Turner. New York: Verso, 1995.
Masses, classes, ideas. Studies in politics and philosophy. New York: Routledge, 1994.