1st Edition
Masses, Classes, Ideas Studies on Politics and Philosophy Before and After Marx
By Etienne Balibar
Copyright 1994
276 Pages
by
Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
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In Masses, Classes, Ideas, well-known French philosopher Etienne Balibar explores the relationship between abstract philosophy and concrete politics. The book gathers together for the first time in English nine of Balibar's most influential essays written over the last decade, which have been carefully revised and reordered in logical succession with an original preface.
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Preface, Part One: Dilemmas of Classical Politics: Insurrection vs Constitution, 1. Spinoza, the Anti-Orwell: The Fear of the Masses, 2. "Rights of Man" and "Rights of the Citizen": The Modern Dialectic of Equality and Freedom, 3. Fichte and the Internal Border: On Addresses to the German Nation, Part Two: Antinomies of Marxian Politics: Materialism, History, and Teleology, 4. The Vacillation of Ideology in Marxism, 5. In Search of the Proletariat: The Notion of Class Politics in Marx, 6. Politics and Truth: The Vacillation of Ideology, II, Part Three: Frontiers of Contemporary Politics: Questioning the Universal, 7. Fascism, Psychoanalysis, Freudo-Marxism, 8. Racism as Universalism, 9. What Is a Politics of the Rights of Man?, Notes, Index, Acknowledgments
Biography
Etienne Balibar, James Swenson
