Talk from a Visiting Professor

Étienne Balibar

Secularism and Cosmopolitanism

Thursday, October 15, 2009
Social Sciences 122
October 15 at 5:00 p.m.

Professor Balibar is Professeur rite, Universit e Paris X Nanterre (Political Philosophy), and Distinguished Professor of Humanities, University of California, Irvine.  His research interests include: political philosophy, Critical Theory, Epistemology of the Social Sciences, and Ethics.  He has also worked on questions of philosophical anthropology (the subject and the citizen), extreme violence and the problem of civility, politics as war and war as politics, individuality and transindividuality, borders and the representation of the stranger, universalism and cosmopolitics.

Selected publications include:

books

2003     We, The People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship, Princeton University Press
2003     L’Europe, l’Amerique, la Guerre.  R exions sur la m ation europ e, Editions La D urverte, Paris
1994     Masses, classes, ideas.  Studies in politics and philosophy, Routledge, New York
1991     Race, Nation, Class, Verso

articles

2007     “(De)Constructing the Human as Human Institution: A Reflection on the Coherence of Hannah Arendt’s Practical Philosophy”
Social Research, Vol. 74: No 3, Fall 2007

2007     “Constructing and Deconstructing the Universal: Jacques Derrida’s Sinnliche Gewissheit” in Adieu Derrida, edited by Costas Douzinas
Palgrave Macmillan