Balibar On Universals

Constructing and Deconstructing Community
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8858-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 160 Seiten

Reihe: Commonalities

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. Balibar builds on these critiques, yet works to rescue and reinvent what universal claims can offer for a revolutionary politics answerable to the common.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balibar, Étienne

Balibar, Etienne

Weitere Mitwirkende

Jordan, Joshua David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: Equivocity of the Universal vii

1 Racism, Sexism, Universalism: A Reply to Joan Scott and Judith Butler 1
Racism and sexism: a single “community”? 5
The institution and discriminatory function of the universal 8
“Human essence,” “normality,” and “anthropological differences” 14

2 Constructions and Deconstructions of the Universal 19
First Lecture 19
Second Lecture 39

3 Sub Specie Universitatis: Speaking the Universal in Philosophy 59
Strategies of disjunction 65
Strategies of subsumption 69
Strategies of translation 75

4 On Universalism: In Dialogue with Alain Badiou 84

5 A New Quarrel 96
Anthropological differences and “human” subjectivity 97
The desire to know 103
Three aporias of universality 105
“Les langues se parlent” 115

Notes 121

Über Autor(innen)

Balibar Étienne:
Étienne Balibar is Professor Emeritus of Moral and Political Philosophy at Université de Paris X-Nanterre; Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine; and Visiting Professor of French at Columbia University. His many books in English include Citizen Subject: Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology (Fordham, 2016), Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy (Columbia, 2016); Equaliberty: Political Essays (Duke, 2014); We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (Princeton, 2003); Politics and the Other Scene (Verso, 2002); Masses, Classes, Ideas: Studies on Politics and Philosophy before and after Marx (Routledge, 1994), and two important co-authored books, Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities (with Immanuel Wallerstein; Verso, 1988) and Reading Capital: The Complete Edition (with Louis Althusser and others; Verso, 2016).Jordan Joshua David:
Joshua David Jordan translates twentieth-and twenty-first-century prose and poetry from the French. A specialist in the work of Henri Michaux, he teaches French literature and language at Fordham University. In 2015, he received a French Voices Award for his translation of David Lapoujade’s Aberrant Movements: The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.Étienne Balibar (Author)
Étienne Balibar is Professor Emeritus of Moral and Political Philosophy at Université de Paris X–Nanterre; Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine; and Visiting Professor of French at Columbia University. His many books include Citizen Subject (Fordham, 2016); Equaliberty (Duke, 2014); We, the People of Europe? (Princeton, 2003); The Philosophy of Marx (Verso, new ed. 2017); and two important coauthored books, Race, Nation, Class (with Immanuel Wallerstein, Verso, 1988) and Reading Capital (with Louis Althusser and others, Verso, new ed. 2016).

Joshua David Jordan (Translator)
Joshua David Jordan translates twentieth- and twenty-first-century French prose and poetry. A specialist in the work of Henri Michaux, he teaches French literature and language at Fordham University. In 2015, he received a French Voices Award for his translation of David Lapoujade’s Aberrant Movements: The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.