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On Universals : Constructing and Deconstructing Community /

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, id...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Balibar, Étienne, 1942- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Jordan, Joshua David (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Commonalities.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Preface : equivocity of the universal -- Racism, sexism, universalism : a reply to Joan Scott and Judith Butler -- Constructions and deconstructions of the universal -- Sub specie universitatis : speaking the universal in philosophy -- On universalism : in dialogue with Alain Badiou -- A new quarrel. 
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