In "Masses, Classes, Ideas", French philosopher Etienne Balibar explores the intrinsic relationship between abstract philosophy and concrete politics. He discusses the influence of political philosophy on collective movements, touching on issues of religious and class struggle, nationalism and racism, the Rights of Man and the Citizen, and property as a social relation. The text gathers together, in English, nine of Balibar's influential essays written over a decade. Together, they offer a provacative contribution to the project of renewing democratic theory.
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The essays on the question and history of the concept of ideology are alone worth the 20 bucks. Very well written. One of the best collections of marxist essays/theory since the death of Adorno.
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Balibar's collection-'Masses, Classes, Ideas,' is an excellent book about a wide range of political concerns, from Spinoza's formulation of human bondage to the problem of working class ideology in Marx and Engels. At the core of this work is an attempt to think through the problem of the absence of proletarian ideology. Balibar makes an interesting distinction between the working class and the masses-at a glance this appears to be a semantic gesture, but his conceptual developments overcome much of the teleology ascribed to the Marxist tradition. In particular, Balibar's work on the problem of historicity vs. history "in the strong sense," with regard to the development of Capital, is a much needed philosophical contribution to the rather hackneyed critiques of Marxist economics.
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With this intentionally untimely title, I shall attemp to formulate the problem on the basis of which it would be possible to understand and discuss what makes Spinoza's political thought (or better, if we share on this point the conception brilliantly put forth by Negri, Spinoza's thought, inasmuch as it is thoroughly political) indispensable for us today, however aporetic it might appear. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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With this intentionally untimely title, I shall attemp to formulate the problem on the basis of which it would be possible to understand and discuss what makes Spinoza's political thought (or better, if we share on this point the conception brilliantly put forth by Negri, Spinoza's thought, inasmuch as it is thoroughly political) indispensable for us today, however aporetic it might appear. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The German Ideology, Theologico-Political Treatise, Ludwig Feuerbach, The Closed Commercial State, Adam Smith, Dialectics of Nature New!
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- A Theologico-Political Treatise: V1 by Benedict de Spinoza on 17 pages
- Theological-Political Treatise: Gebhardt Edition by Benedictus de Spinoza on 17 pages
- Ludwig Feuerbach by F. Engels on 8 pages
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- Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things by Ann Laura Stoler on 4 pages
- Postmodernism, Unraveling Racism, and Democratic Institutions by John W. Murphy on 4 pages
- We, the People of Europe?: Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (Translation/Transnation) by Etienne Balibar on 4 pages
- Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes and Thinkers by Alan D. Schrift on page 80, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes and Thinkers by Alan D. Schrift on page 80, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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