By Bernard E. Harcourt In his essay “The Role of Law in Critical Theory,” and in dialogue with Etienne Balibar and Camille Robcis at the Praxis 5/13 seminar on “The Common”, Mikhaïl Xifaras proposes an expansive view of law: Law… Continue Reading
By Camille Robcis In their preface to Commonwealth, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri describe their book as an “ethical project, an ethics of democratic political action within and against Empire.”[1] Their goal, they explain, is not simply to recognize the… Continue Reading
By Etienne Balibar Law, Property, Politics A rejoinder to Mikhail Xifaras’ “The Role of Law in Critical Theory” It is a great pleasure to take part in the discussion of Mikhail Xifaras’ remarkable paper on “The Role of Law in… Continue Reading
By Mikhaïl Xifaras Note: This is a draft. Please do not quote or circulate more widely. The Role of the Law in Critical Theory — The case of Property and the Commons — As a Commentary of the first chapter… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “The Common” takes us back to the material roots of praxis—to Marx, to capital, to private property, to the idea of the common. It does so, though, by once more flipping the master on his head. The… Continue Reading