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Cosmopolitanism as an idea has a long and complex history, essentially western, tracing back to Greek philosophy and reaching the contemporary projects of collective security and ecological community. It has been successively interfering with programmes of universal sovereignty, perpetual peace, internationalism, decolonisation, and, consequently, divided along political lines in its interpretation.
Cosmopolitanism as an idea has a long and complex history, essentially western, tracing back to Greek philosophy and reaching the contemporary projects of collective security and ecological community. It has been successively interfering with programmes of universal sovereignty, perpetual peace, internationalism, decolonisation, and, consequently, divided along political lines in its interpretation. It is still very much a source of inspiration for theorists of international law, transnational social movements, and post-national cultural critique. The legacy of its major modern theoreticians, from Kant to Saint-Simon to Marx, nourishes contemporary moral and political philosophy. However, with the emergence of an actually “globalized†world of markets, organizations and cultures, whose dark side may well reside in a generalized economy of violence, the tendency to identify the figure of the “stranger†with the “enemyâ€, and a growing insecurity of the environment, an alternative ideology is gaining strength, called “global governanceâ€. The lecture will introduce a third possibility, that of a genuine cosmopolitics of the universal, which avoids both the idealism of cosmopolitanism and the technocratic predicaments of global governance.
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Professor Etienne Balibar | talks |
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6 November 2007 at 2:30 pm |
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Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities |
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Free - all welcome |
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Rooms B03 & B04 43, Gordon Sq. London WC1H OPD Etienne Balibar is Professorial Fellow at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Emeritus Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Paris 10 Nanterre and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine (USA). Etienne Balibar also teaches seminars at the Centro Franco-Argentino de Altos Estudios de la Universidad de Buenos-Aires (Argentina) and the Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University of New-York. He is author or co-author of numerous books including Reading Capital (with Louis Althusser) (1965), On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (1976), Race, Nation, Class. Ambiguous Identities (Verso, 1991, with Immanuel Wallerstein), Masses, Classes, Ideas (Routledge, 1994), The Philosophy of Marx (Verso 1995), Spinoza and Politics (Verso 1998), Politics and the Other Scene (Verso, 2002), We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (Princeton, 2004). He is also a contributor of the Dictionnaire Européen des Philosophies (sous la direction de Barbara Cassin, 2004). Forthcoming are Extreme Violence and the Problem of Civility (The Wellek Library Lectures 1996), and Citoyen Sujet, Essais d'anthropologie philosophique (Presses Universitaires de France). Etienne Balibar is a member of Ligue des Droits de l’Homme (Paris), with a particular interest in the rights of migrants and asylum seekers. He is co-founder of Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace and acting chair of Association Jan Hus France. |
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