Etienne Balibar. Foto © AFP Ulf Andersen |
In
aansluiting op het blog van 13 mei 2018 “Misschien Étienne Balibar’s Magnum opus: Spinoza politique. Le
transindividuel”, wil ik zoals ik in het eerste blog in deze kleine reeks al meldde, wijzen
op enige teksten van en over Balibar die op internet te vinden zijn. Eerst iets meer over hem. Van
de website
van de Universiteit Utrecht neem ik deze korte biografische info over:
Étienne Balibar was born in
Avallon (France) in 1942. He graduated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the
Sorbonne in Paris, later took his PhD from the University of Nijmegen
(Netherlands) and has an Habilitation from Université de Paris I. He has been
teaching at the Universities of Algiers, Sorbonne, Leiden, Nanterre, UC Irvine.
He is Professor of Philosophy at Kingston University London and Visiting
Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New
York. His books include Reading Capital
(with Louis Althusser) (1965), On the Dictatorship of the
Proletariat (1976), Race, Nation, Class.
Ambiguous Identities (1991, with Immanuel Wallerstein), Masses, Classes, Ideas (1994), The Philosophy of Marx (1995), Spinoza and Politics (1998), Politics and the Other Scene
(2002), We, the People of Europe? Reflections on
Transnational Citizenship (Princeton, 2004). Forthcoming are The Proposition of Equaliberty, Violence and Civility, and Citizen Subject, Essays of Philosophical
Anthropology. [Zie op transversal
texts en op en.wikipedia korte biografische informatie over Etienne Balibar.
Waarom (en bij wie) hij aan de
Radboud Universiteit van Nijmegen promoveerde, heb ik niet kunnen achterhalen,
wel dat hij zijn Theses er verdedigde
op 11 dec. 1987 en gepubliceerd kreeg in Raison
présente 89 (1989), pp 15-17 (een wel heel bescheiden dissertatie), zo is te
lezen in zijn Habilitationsschrift, dat als
Etienne
Balibar, “The Infinite Contradiction” vertaald verscheen in Yale French Studies, No. 88,
Depositions: Althusser, Balibar, Macherey, and the Labor of Reading (1995), pp.
142-164 [In noot 1 staat: “…the same paper I read to present the body of my
work during my Research Director habilitation
on 16 January 1993 at the Université de Paris I.”]
Tot
zover over zijn biografie. In een volgend blog verwijs ik naar webplaatsen waar
werk van hem is gepubliceerd. In dit blog doe ik dat naar waar werk over
hem te vinden is.
• Caroline Williams, “Reading
Spinoza Today - Review Essay.” In: Contemporary
Political Theory, 2002, 1, (371–388) [Cf.] Aldaar als PDF te downloaden (laat je niet afschikken
door wat rare fratsen – ’t komt goed). Zij schrijft o.a. over Baibar.
• Diane
Enns [McMaster University], “A Conversation with Etienne Balibar.” In: Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental
Philosophy, 9:2, Fall, 2005 [PDF en
academia.edu
• Claudia Aradau,
"Only Aporias to Offer? Étienne Balibar's Politics and the Ambiguity of
War." In: New Formations, Summer
2006, Issue 58: Of Borders and Discos,
pp. 39–46. [Cf. en PDF
– ook hier PDF – cf. over professor Claudia Aradau aan het King’s College
London]
• James D. Ingram, "Democracy
and Its Conditions: Étienne Balibar and the Contribution of Marxism to Radical
Democracy" cf. academia.edu
Dit is Chapter 8 in: Martin Breaugh, Christopher Holman, Rachel Magnusson, Paul Mazzocchi, and Devin Penner (Eds.), Thinking Radical Democracy: The Return to Politics in Postwar France. University of Toronto Press, 2015. Pp 210 – 233 – books.google
Dit is Chapter 8 in: Martin Breaugh, Christopher Holman, Rachel Magnusson, Paul Mazzocchi, and Devin Penner (Eds.), Thinking Radical Democracy: The Return to Politics in Postwar France. University of Toronto Press, 2015. Pp 210 – 233 – books.google
Thinking Radical Democracy is an introduction to nine key
political thinkers who contributed to the emergence of radical democratic
thought in post-war French political theory: Hannah Arendt, Maurice
Merleau-Ponty, Pierre Clastres, Claude Lefort, Cornelius Castoriadis, Guy
Debord, Jacques Rancière, Étienne Balibar, and Miguel Abensour.
• James D. Ingram, “Why Balibar?” – academia.edu
• Warren
Montag & Hanan Elsayed (Eds.), Balibar
and the Citizen Subject. Edinburgh University Press, febr. 2017 hardback, 1
aug. 2018 paperback. Iets meer over de inhoud bij Jstor – books.google [cf. ook dit blog]
Explores the core of Balibars work since 1980. This collection
explores Balibar's rethinking of the connections between subjection and
subjectivity by tracing the genealogies of these concepts in their discursive
history. The 12 essays provide an overview of Balibar's work after his
collaboration with Althusser. They explain and expand his framework; in
particular, by restoring Arabic and Islamic thought to the conversation on the
citizen subject. The collection includes two previously untranslated essays by
Balibar himself on Carl Schmitt and Thomas Hobbes.
• Daarin
Chapter 3, "The “Other Scene” of Political Anthropology: Between Transindividuality
and Equaliberty" by Jason Read (pp.
111-131) – books.google
“The political thought of Etienne Balibar is framed between transindividuality
and equaliberty. These terms frame much of Balibar’s writing on politics,
citizenship, race and philosophy in recent decades yet they do not have the
same status. One is borrowed, a citation from Gilbert Simondon, while the other
is Balibar’s neologism, a word that combines equality and liberty. The first is
situated with respect to Balibar’s investigations in the history of philosophy,
constituting a tradition of Spinoza, Hegel and Marx, while the second is
deployed in Balibar’s investigations of the intersection of race, nation and class
in contemporary politics.”
• William
McGillivray McMurtrie, Spinoza: Ontology
and the Political. Ph. D.-thesis, The Cardiff school of English,
Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University, July 2011 [PDF]
Abstract. Historically, Spinoza
has tended to be considered as something of an anomaly within European
modernity, a fascinating exception within the Western philosophical canon but
one who has largely remained on the margins. More recently, however, there has
been a significant revival of interest in Spinoza, a ‘turn’ to Spinoza which
has had major impact on leftist philosophicalpolitical thought.
This thesis traces some of the history of this turn, and seeks
to determine the nature of this impact. It ranges critically over the readings
of Spinoza produced by Louis Althusser and by Etienne Balibar, by Gilles
Deleuze and by Antonio Negri, and by Alain Badiou. As the conjuncts and the
commas here suggest, these readings are grouped within two broad ‘lines of
descent’ from Spinoza: Line 1 comprising Althusser and Balibar, and sharing
among other things a problematics of ideology and of the subject in which the
influence of Lacan becomes apparent, Line 2 comprising Deleuze and Negri and
sharing a certain qualified naturalism.
Badiou, while exhibiting connections with Line 1, at the same time produces his
own distinctive reading of Spinoza ( as indeed do each of these thinkers), one
which turns on the status of the subject within Spinoza’s ontology, and on what
Badiou alleges is a suppression of ‘ the place of the subject’, and therefore of the negative,
within it.
Several broad lines of enquiry run through the thesis. The first
of these concerns the relationship between ontology and the ethical-political,
between what Balibar terms ‘first’ and ‘second’ philosophy. The second concerns
the function of the negative within these various readings, and what I argue is
its persistence within an otherwise apparently positive ontology. The third,
however, an overarching theme, concerns the ways in which Spinoza is
deployed by these various thinkers as a
philosophical and political antidote to Hegelian idealism within Marx, and
above all to Hegelian teleology.
In connection with this, the thesis therefore moves towards an
examination of the ways in which these various readings of Spinoza have in turn
fed into renewed readings of Marx, and considers this both in connection with a
preoccupation with primitive accumulation shared by Althusser, Deleuze and
Negri, and in relation to the readings of Marx produced by the Italian Marxist
traditions of operaismo and autonomia.
The thesis concludes that the turn to Spinoza has had a positive
and enriching effect on Marxist thought, and outlines both some of the new
dimensions which it has allowed to be developed, and some new lines of
investigation which it has opened up within Marxism.
• Daniela Voss, “Immanence, transindividuality and the
free multitude.” In: Philosophy and
Social Criticism, Vol. XX #X [apr. 2018], pp. 1–23 [PDF ook op academia.edu - cf. blog van 12 mei 2018, "Dr. Daniela Voß verbindt Deleuze’s en
Balibar’s Spinoza-studie"]
Hierbij de informatie over Etienne's promotie. 4 delen in 3 banden....
BeantwoordenVerwijderenBalibar, E.R.J., La contradiction infinie: éléments d’une philosophie dans l’histoire / Étienne René Jean Balibar. - Nijmegen: [s.n.], 1987. - 4 dl. in 3 bd.
Overzicht:
i: Philosophie et epistemologie.
ii: Études sur Marx et le marxisme.
iii: Études sur Spinoza.
iv: Racisme et nationalisme: problèmes de la citoyenneté.
Wijsbegeerte, 11 dec. 1987 (cum laude),
Promotores: G. Lock en H. van Gunsteren
Bron: https://repository.ubn.ru.nl/bitstream/handle/2066/18655/18655_horaes.pdf?sequence=1
VerwijderenDank, Howard, voor deze nuttige aanvulling. Intrigerende titel: La contradiction infinie, dezelfde titel gaf hij mee aan zijn 'habilitation' van 1995, waarin noot 31 luidt:
BeantwoordenVerwijderen"31. See 'Theses,' defended on 11 December 1987 before the jury of the Universit6 de
Nimegue (Netherlands), for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Published in French in
'Raison présente' 89 (1989): 15-17."
Dat laatste zal dan alleen om zijn stellingen zijn gegaan.
Correctie, zijn habilitation was on 16 January 1993
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