E-Book, Englisch, 160 Seiten
Reihe: Commonalities
Balibar On Universals
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8858-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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Constructing and Deconstructing Community
E-Book, Englisch, 160 Seiten
Reihe: Commonalities
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8858-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
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