UWP Lecturers Etienne Balibar - Public Lecture - January 21 - 4:30 p.m.

[John Ganim]

>Etienne Balibar
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>  Aporias of the Community: The Debate Around Derrida in the 80’s
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>January 21
>4:30 PM
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>HMNSS 1500
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>In 1983 some major texts of contemporary French 
>philosophy appeared in a row : Jean-Luc Nancy’s 
>“The inoperative community”, Maurice Blanchot’s 
>“The unavowable community”, Jean-François 
>Lyotard’s “The differend”. They were directly or 
>indirectly the products of the work carried on 
>in a group created in 1981 around Jacques 
>Derrida, which received also contributions from 
>Lacoue-Labarthe, Lefort, Rancière, and others. 
>The discussion which they generated produced 
>many significant contributions. It centered on 
>the aporia of the community as a notion which 
>produces the most opposite political effects 
>(emancipatory and genocidal, inclusive and 
>exclusive), and which seems to be at the same 
>time indispensable and treacherous for 
>democratic politics. In 1994, in Politics of 
>Friendship, Derrida proposed a critical 
>assessment of the debate and, simultaneously, a 
>displacement toward other categories of the 
>political which refer to the ambivalence of the 
>other rather than the exigency of the common. 
>The lecture will describe the content of this 
>“philosophical moment”, trying to synthesize its 
>meaning and discuss its relevance for 
>contemporary interrogations on the crisis of the political.
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>Etienne Balibar is Emeritus Professor of Moral 
>and Political Philosophy at the University of 
>Paris 10 Nanterre and Distinguished Professor of 
>Humanities at the University of California, 
>Irvine. He also teaches seminars at the Centro 
>Franco-Argentino de Altos Estudios de la 
>Universidad de Buenos-Aires (Argentina) and the 
>Center for Comparative Literature and Society at 
>Columbia University of New-York. He is an author 
>or co-author of numerous books including Reading 
>Capital (with Louis Althusser) (1965), On the 
>Dictatorship of the Proletariat (1976), Race, 
>Nation, Class. Ambiguous Identities (Verso, 
>1991, with Immanuel Wallerstein), Masses, 
>Classes, Ideas (Routledge, 1994), The Philosophy 
>of Marx (Verso 1995), Spinoza and Politics 
>(Verso 1998), Politics and the Other Scene 
>(Verso, 2002), We, the People of Europe? 
>Reflections on Transnational Citizenship 
>(Princeton, 2004). He is also a contributor of 
>the Dictionnaire Européen des Philosophies (sous 
>la direction de Barbara Cassin, 2004). 
>Forthcoming are Extreme Violence and the Problem 
>of Civility (The Wellek Library Lectures 1996), 
>and Citoyen Sujet, Essais d'anthropologie 
>philo­sophique (Presses Universitaires de France).
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>This event is sponsored by the Center for Ideas 
>and Society and is free and open to the 
>public.  For further information regarding this 
>or any event sponsored by the Center for Ideas 
>and Society, please visit our website at 
>ideasandsociety.ucr.edu or call 951.UCR.IDEA
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