On Universals: Constructing and Deconstructing Community

by Étienne Balibar

Book Overview

Many on the Left have looked upon "universal" as a dirty word, one that signals liberalism's failure to recognize the masculinist and Eurocentric assumptions from which it proceeds. In rejecting universalism, we have learned to reorient politics around particulars, positionalities, identities, immanence, and multiple modernities. In this book, one of our most important political philosophers builds on these critiques of the tacit exclusions of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823288552
• ISBN13: 9780823288557
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"