Thinking with Balibar

Ann Laura Stoler (Edited By) Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research where she directs the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry. Her most recent book is Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times (Duke, 2016).Stathis Gourgouris (Edited By) Stathis Gourgouris is Professor of Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. His most recent book is The Perils of the One (Columbia, 2019).Jacques Lezra (Edited By) Jacques Lezra is Professor and Chair of Hispanic Studies at the University of California—Riverside. His most recent book is On the Nature of Marx's Things: Translation as Necrophilology (Fordham, 2018).

• Preface viiIntroduction: Balibar and the Philosophy of the ConceptWarren Montag 1AnthropologicalBruce Robbins 15Border-Concept (of the Political)Stathis Gourgouris 28Civil Religion: Secularism as Religion?Judith Butler 45ConceptÉtienne Balibar 54Contre- / Counter-Bernard E. Harcourt 71ConversionMonique David-Ménard 85CosmopoliticsEmily Apter 94Interior FrontiersAnn Laura Stoler 117MaterialismPatrice Maniglier 140The PoliticalAdi Ophir 158PunishmentDidier Fassin 183RaceHanan Elsayed 193RelationJacques Lezra 211RightsJ. M. Bernstein 230SolidarityGary Wilder 253Bibliography 275List of Contributors 311Index 315