Étienne Balibar
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23 April 1942 Avallon, Burgundy, France |
| Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure |
| Era | 20th / 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Post-Marxism |
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Étienne Balibar (French: [balibaʁ]; born 23 April 1942) is a French philosopher. He has taught at the University of Paris X-Nanterre, at the University of California Irvine and is currently an Anniversary Chair Professor at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University and a Visiting Professor at the Department of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University.
Balibar was born in Avallon, Yonne, Burgundy, and first rose to prominence as one of Althusser's pupils at the École Normale Supérieure. He was a participant in Louis Althusser's seminar on Karl Marx's Das Kapital. This seminar resulted in the book entitled Reading Capital, co-authored by Althusser and his students, among whom Althusser considered Balibar to be the foremost contributor.
His daughter is the actress Jeanne Balibar.
In Masses, Classes and Ideas, Balibar argues that in Das Kapital (or Capital), the theory of historical materialism comes into conflict with the critical theory that Marx begins to develop, particularly in his analysis of the category of labor, which in capitalism becomes a form of property. This conflict involves two distinct uses of the term "labor": labor as the revolutionary class subject (i.e., the "proletariat") and labor as an objective condition for the reproduction of capitalism (the "working class"). In The German Ideology, Marx conflates these two meanings of labor, and treats labor as, in Balibar’s words, the "veritable site of truth as well as the place from which the world is changed..."
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