[D66] Citizenship

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    Citizenship


    *By: *Balibar 

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      Description

If fundamental political categories were represented as geometric
shapes, citizenship would be one of those rotating polyhedrons with
reflective surfaces that together create effects of light and shade.
With extraordinarily acute discernment, the leading philosopher Étienne
Balibar examines one by one the various faces of this object, more
numerous - and far more fissured - than one would imagine. The question
of what it means to be a citizen has, from the dawn of Western politics,
been anything but clear and straightforward; and modernity has shown it
to be even more enigmatic and contested.

Inseparable from democracy, and the demands for equality and liberty
from which democracy draws its origins, citizenship is constantly being
redefined within the unresolved contradiction between universal
principles and the discriminatory mechanisms that regulate membership of
a political community.

Not everyone is a citizen, even within one nation-state. It has been
said that ?certain persons are in society without being of society?. The
dynamics of inclusion and exclusion continue to generate dramatic
asymmetries and create openings and closures, especially today in a time
of particular fragility and when national sovereignty is in flux. So are
there too many antinomies within citizenship? Balibar does not shy away
from these antimonies, but he knows that to renounce citizenship would
be to abandon the chance to create new modes of collective autonomy, in
short, to democratize democracy.

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*Hardcover*
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Status
Available
Edition
First Edition
ISBN
9780745682402
ISBN10
0745682405
Publication Dates ROW:
Jun 2015
Publication Dates US:
Jul 2015
Publication Dates Aus & NZ:
Jun 2015
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Format
216 x 135 mm 
8.50 x 5.31 in
Pages
180 pages
*Paperback*
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Status
Available
Edition
First Edition
ISBN
9780745682419
ISBN10
0745682413
Publication Dates ROW:
Jun 2015
Publication Dates US:
Jul 2015
Publication Dates Aus & NZ:
Jun 2015
Buy from Wiley


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