Étienne Balibar is professor emeritus of Political and Moral Philosophy at the Université Paris Ouest, and presently teaches at the University of California at Irvine. He is one of the most well known and influential Marxist thinkers, and his political writings on Europe, democracy and citizenship have been translated all over the world. In recent years he has developed an intense dialogue with part of Western feminist thought, and with scholars like Judith Butler, Rosi Braidotti and Wendy Brown.