Equaliberty Political Essays

"This outstanding book is Etienne Balibar at his most powerfully synthetic and politically incisive. In Equaliberty, Balibar works his way through the house of left-wing political thought, performing a sort of philosophical spring cleaning. He disarticulates complex concepts only to reassemble them in better, more usable combinations. It is a call to action." - Bruce Robbins, author of Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence "Today many of the key concepts of our political vocabulary-including equality, freedom, democracy, and emancipation-seem so corrupted and vacuous that they are almost unusable. Etienne Balibar makes an important contribution by engaging critically and restoring these and other crucial political concepts. Equaliberty is a major book that displays Balibar's exemplary combination of erudition and clear, accessible argument." - Michael Hardt, coauthor of the books Declaration, Commonwealth, Multitude, and Empire