Free Download On Universals: Constructing and Deconstructing Community by Étienne Balibar, translated by Joshua David Jordan
English | August 4, 2020 | ISBN: 0823288560, 0823288552 | True EPUB | 160 pages | 1.3 MB
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 Enlightenment thought, while at the same time working to rescue and reinvent what universal claims can offer for a revolutionary politics answerable to the common.