Structuralism: A Destitution of the Subject?

étienne balibar is Professor of Critical Theory at the University of California, Irvine, and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Paris X-Nanterre. His recent publications include Droit de cité (Presses Universitaires de France, 2002) and Politics and the Other Scene (Verso, 2002). A translation of his Nous, les citoyens d'Europe is forthcoming from Princeton University Press. Translated by James Swenson james swenson teaches French at Rutgers University. He is the author of On Jean-Jacques Rousseau Considered as One of the First Authors of the Revolution (Stanford University Press, 2000) and translator of books and articles by Étienne Balibar, Jacques Rancière, and Jacques Lacan, among others.