The 12 essays provide an overview of Balibar’s work after his collaboration with Althusser. They explain and expand his framework; in particular, by restoring Arabic and Islamic thought to the conversation on the citizen subject. The collection includes two previously untranslated essays by Balibar himself on Carl Schmitt and Thomas Hobbes.

Notes on the contributors Introduction: Balibar and the Citizen SubjectWarren Montag and Hanan Elsayed Part I: Balibar Reading Schmitt Reading Hobbes: Equality or Sameness? 1. Schmitt’s Hobbes, Hobbes’s SchmittEtienne Balibar 2. The Mortal God and his Faithful Subjects: Hobbes, Schmitt and the Antinomies of SecularismEtienne Balibar Part II: Transindividual / Universal 1. The ‘Other Scene’ of Political Anthropology: Between Transindividuality and EqualibertyJason Read 2. Intersubjectivity or Transindividuality: The Leibniz-Spinoza AlternativeVittorio Morfino 3. A Parallelism of Consciousness and Property: Balibar's Reading of LockeWarren Montag 4. Figures of Universalism: Notes on Philosophy and Politics in Etienne BalibarMohamed Moulfi 5. Balibar and the Philosophy of ScienceGiorgos Fourtounis Part III: Inequality, Violence and the Possibility of Citizenship 6. La Haine: Falling in Slow MotionHanan Elsayed 7. Morbid Perseverance: The Internal Border and White SupremacyJames Ford 8. Just like a woman: Balibar on the politics of reproductionNancy Armstrong 9. Another "Neo-Racism": Balibar and the Everywhere War, Mike Hill Notes on contributorsIndex

The first English-language edited collection to focus on Balibar. Presents and explains Balibar's key contributions to political theory and the history of political philosophy. Includes the first English translation of an important and influential essay by Balibar himself on Carl Schmitt and Thomas Hobbes. Key contributors include Etienne Balibar, Nancy Armstrong, Giorgos Fourtounis, Mohamed Moulfi