3 documents
e-flux Notes
Posted: September 25, 2024
Category
War & Conflict
Subjects
Middle East
# 78
A Hyperbolic Proposition
Étienne Balibar
Does the activity of the citizen exclude the idea of representation? This position has been argued: whence the long series of discourses identifying active citizenship and “direct democracy,” with or without reference to antiquity. In reality this identification rests on a confusion.
e-flux Journal
Posted: December 8, 2016
Category
Human and Civil Rights, Philosophy
Subjects
Sovereignty, Citizenship
# 77
Citizen Subject
Étienne Balibar
A Response to Jean-Luc Nancy’s Question “Who Comes After the Subject?”
Both following Hegel and opposed to him, Heidegger proposes Descartes as the moment when the “sovereignty of the subject” is established (in philosophy), inaugurating the discourse of modernity. This supposes that man, or rather the ego , is determined and conceived of as subject ( subjectum ). 1
Doubtless, from one text to another, and sometimes even within the same “text” (I am primarily referring here to…
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 3, 2016
Category
Philosophy, Human and Civil Rights
Subjects
Citizenship, Subjectivity