Ми, громадяни Європи? Кордони, держава, народ

by Étienne Balibar, Етьєн Балібар, Андрій Рєпа (Перекладач)

Ця збірка есеїв є спробою "мислити інакше" фундаментальні проблеми: громадянство й національність, політика прав людини, громадянська дія. Автор докладно розглядає питання кордонів Європи як політичного простору, що уможливлює ідентичність колективів і спільнот; питання держави, в якій зіштовхується логіка служіння суспільству та контроль за населенням; питання народу, якого вже годі ототожнювати з державницькою нацією. Збірка також порушує питання непевного майбутнього Європейського Союзу.

Genres: Politics, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Theory

354 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Étienne Balibar is emeritus professor of philosophy at Paris X Nanterre and emeritus professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine. He is also professor of modern European philosophy at Kingston University, London, and professor of French and comparative literature at Columbia University. His books include Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy (Columbia, 2015).

Reviews

[A. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some essays are thought provoking, others are a bit to general. Balibar's problematization of the border, formulated in the 90's, remains important for us to understand the so-called rise of the far-right and the authoritarian border policies of the European Union.

[Daniel Hammer · Rating 2 out of 5]

I picked up this book entirely for his chapter "Europe after communism." The book was published in 2004 and I had hoped for a relatively recent reflection on changing European ideological currents since 1989. Instead, it turns out this chapter was a lecture he gave in 1991, when almost no time had passed in order to develop some critical distance.
Other than that disappointment, Balibar offers a few interesting points on citizenship and universality in Europe. He is under-specific on many points, however, and much of what excited me about this book were his descriptions of things other scholars are doing with ideas of citizenship and nation, rather than his own.