Cosmopolitanism and Secularism: Controversial Legacies and Prospective Interrogations

Étienne Balibar is Emeritus Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Paris X, Nanterre, and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. He is author or co-author of Reading Capital (with Louis Althusser; 1965), Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities (with Immanuel Wallerstein; Verso, 1991), Masses, Classes, Ideas (Routledge, 1994), The Philosophy of Marx (Verso, 1995), Spinoza and Politics (Verso, 1998), Politics and the Other Scene (Verso, 2002), and We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (Princeton University Press, 2004).