No-one and nothing, not even the Congress of a Communist Party, can abolish the dictatorship of the proletariat. That is the most important conclusion of this book by Etienne Balibar.

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Most readers of Louis Althusser first enter his work through his writings on ideology. In an important new essay Etienne Balibar, friend and colleague of Althusser, offers an original reading…

Revealing the explicit relationships among globalization, capitalism, and barbarism to rid our world of violence once and for all.

Many on the Left have looked upon universal as a dirty word, one that signals liberalism’s failure to recognize the masculinist and Eurocentric assumptions from which it proceeds. Balibar builds…

Etienne Balibar, one of the foremost living French philosophers, builds on his landmark work ‘Spinoza and Politics’ with this exploration of Spinoza’s ontology. Balibar situates Spinoza in relation to the…

This volume, the first sustained critical work on the French political philosopher Etienne Balibar, collects essays by sixteen prominent philosophers, psychoanalysts, anthropologists, sociologists, and literary critics who each identify, define…

A classic work of Marxist analysis, available unabridged for the first time, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication

This interdisciplinary collection, featuring some of today’s most prominent political theorists, sociologists, philosophers, and historians, challenges narratives of neoliberalism’s demise. The book queries whether contemporary political ruptures-including the rise of…