Étienne Balibar

Étienne Balibar
Born (1942-04-23) 23 April 1942
Avallon, Burgundy, France
Education
Alma materÉcole Normale Supérieure
Philosophical work
Era20th-/21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolContinental philosophy
Post-Marxism
InstitutionsUniversity of Paris X
University of California, Irvine
Main interestsPolitical philosophy
Notable ideasEqualiberty, critique of modern conceptions of the nation-state

Étienne Balibar (/bælɪˈbɑːr/; French: [etjɛn balibaʁ]; born 23 April 1942) is a French philosopher. He has taught at the University of Paris X, 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.