Articles by Alain Supiot

• Under Eastern Eyes
  • Alain Supiot

  in NLR 73, January-February 2012, pp. 29-36
  Subjects: Europe
  

  Origins of the EU’s ‘democratic deficit’ in an assault on the remnants of social democracy—gaining new impetus from the East, in a post-Communist synthesis of neoliberal doctrine and authoritarian practice.

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• Possible Europes
  • Alain Supiot

  in NLR 57, May-June 2009, pp. 57-65
  Subjects: Europe , Work under Modern Capitalism
  

  Interview with leading French jurist on the fate of ‘social Europe’ after Maastricht: subordination of labour to market, and of EU enlargement to the priorities of capital. Might the continent’s bloody past inspire alternative visions?

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• Law and Labour
  • Alain Supiot

  in NLR 39, May-June 2006, pp. 109-121
  Subjects: Social Theory , World Economy and Globalization
  

  Behind the struggles over employment laws in France and Germany, Alain Supiot describes a deeper battle over legal systems. Are national legislative models—now benchmarked for investment efficiency by the international institutions—becoming rival products in a world market of norms?

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• The Labyrinth of Human Rights
  • Alain Supiot

  in NLR 21, May-June 2003, pp. 118-136
  Subjects: Philosophy , Social Theory
  

  Dogmatic foundations as an invariant of all civilizations, and the religious origins of the contemporary doctrine of human rights in the West. Can, despite its undemonstrability, a particular creed become a common resource of humanity, appropriated in different ways across the planet?

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• Ontologies of Law
  • Alain Supiot

  in NLR 13, January-February 2002, pp. 107-124
  Subjects: Philosophy
  

  Western modes of thought have embodied concepts of law since the sun god of Ancient Babylon issued his edicts to the stars. Alain Supiot surveys their successive evolutions and ambivalent laicization across the centuries, from Gratian and Abelard to Becker and Bourdieu.

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