Citizenship, Insurrection, and Recognition: European Critical Theory Before the Biopolitical Threshold: Citizenship; Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy; Recognition or Disagreement: A Critical Encounter on the Politics of Freedom, Equality, and Identify

Authors

Miguel Vatter

Abstract

Étienne Balibar, Jacques Rancière and Axel Honneth are representative figures of a generation of political theorists who stand under the shooting star of May 1968, the high season of insurrectionary politics in the last half century. The books under review offer a welcome opportunity to consider the lessons they draw from this event and its aftermath at the twilight of their careers. However, taken as a whole these books also reveal the limits of this style of radical democratic theory that only in a very approximate way has registered the passing of the baton, which occurred roughly during the same period, between a politics aiming at emancipation and a politics of governmentality or biopolitics.

Recommended Citation

Vatter, Miguel (2018) "Citizenship, Insurrection, and Recognition: European Critical Theory Before the Biopolitical Threshold: Citizenship; Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy; Recognition or Disagreement: A Critical Encounter on the Politics of Freedom, Equality, and Identify," International Dialogue: Vol. 8, Article 6.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32873/uno.dc.ID.8.1.1152
Available at: https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/id-journal/vol8/iss1/6