Balibar and the Citizen Subject

Warren Montag is Brown Family Professor in Literature, English at Occidental College. His publications include The Other Adam Smith with Mike Hill (Stanford UP, 2014) and Althusser and his Contemporaries: Philosophy’s Perpetual War (Duke UP, 2013). Hanan Elsayed is Associate Professor, Spanish and French Studies at Occidental College, where she teaches French and Arabic languages and literatures. She is the author of L'Histoire sacrée de l'Islam dans la fiction maghrébine (Karthala, 2016).

There is hardly a field in contemporary critical thought that does not bear the traces of the powerful interventions of Étienne Balibar. This collection of essays is not merely a due homage to his work. It opens up new and challenging pathways in the wake of Balibar’s philosophical and political reflection.

• Notes on the contributorsIntroduction: Balibar and the Citizen SubjectWarren Montag and Hanan ElsayedPart I: Balibar Reading Schmitt Reading Hobbes: Equality or Sameness?1. Schmitt’s Hobbes, Hobbes’s SchmittEtienne Balibar2. The Mortal God and his Faithful Subjects: Hobbes, Schmitt and the Antinomies of SecularismEtienne BalibarPart II: Transindividual / Universal1. The ‘Other Scene’ of Political Anthropology: Between Transindividuality and EqualibertyJason Read2. Intersubjectivity or Transindividuality: The Leibniz-Spinoza AlternativeVittorio Morfino3. A Parallelism of Consciousness and Property: Balibar's Reading of LockeWarren Montag4. Figures of Universalism: Notes on Philosophy and Politics in Etienne BalibarMohamed Moulfi5. Balibar and the Philosophy of ScienceGiorgos FourtounisPart III: Inequality, Violence and the Possibility of Citizenship6. La Haine: Falling in Slow MotionHanan Elsayed7. Morbid Perseverance: The Internal Border and White SupremacyJames Ford8. Just like a woman: Balibar on the politics of reproductionNancy Armstrong9. Another "Neo-Racism": Balibar and the Everywhere War, Mike HillNotes on contributorsIndex