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etienne balibar is Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Paris-X Nanterre and editor, with Dominique Lecourt, of the collection “Practiques Théoriques” of the Presses Universitaires de France. He is author most recently of Masses, Classes, Ideas: Studies in Politics and Philosophy (1994) and Lieux et marts de la vérité (1994).