Gopal Balakrishnan

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Gopal Balakrishnan
Fields	Political theory
Institutions	University of California, Santa Cruz, University of Chicago
Alma mater	University of California, Los Angeles
Influences	Carl Schmitt, Max Weber, Karl Marx, Perry Anderson, Fredric Jameson

Gopal Balakrishnan is associate professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, working on political thought, intellectual history, and critical theory.

Balakrishnan studied European intellectual history and historical sociology at UCLA during the 1990s with Perry Anderson, Robert Brenner, Rogers Brubaker, and Michael Mann.

Prior to moving to Santa Cruz, he was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago. He is currently a member of the editorial board of the New Left Review.^[1]

Selected publications

Mapping the Nation (coedited with Benedict Anderson), Verso, 1996.
The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt, Verso, 2000.
Debating Empire (editor), Verso, 2003.
Antagonistics: Capitalism and Power in an Age of War, Verso, 2009.
'Speculations on the Stationary State', New Left Review 59, September-October 2009
Review of Bobbitt’s The Shield of Achilles, New Left Review 23.
Review of Hardt and Negri's Empire, New Left Review 5.

References

↑ Faculty Homepage at UC Santa Cruz

External links

Review of The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt

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