{"product_id":"on-universals-constructing-and-deconstructing-community-paperback-softback-9780823288557","title":"On Universals; Constructing and Deconstructing Community (Paperback \/ softback) 9780823288557","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOn Universals\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eConstructing and Deconstructing Community\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eÉtienne Balibar (Author), Joshua David Jordan (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823288557\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 4 August 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e160 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 0.9 cm, 0.24 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany 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.\u003cbr\u003e In the contemporary quarrel of universals, Balibar shows, the stakes are no less than the future of our democracies. In dialogue with such philosophers as Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, and Jacques Rancière, he meticulously investigates the paradoxical processes by which the universal is constructed and deconstructed, instituted and challenged, in modern society. With critical rigor and keen historical insight, Balibar shows that every statement and institution of the universal—such as declarations of human rights—carry an exclusionary, particularizing principle within themselves and that every universalism immediately falls prey to countervailing universalisms. Always equivocal and plural, the universal is thus a persistent site of conflict within societies and within subjects themselves.\u003cbr\u003e And yet, Balibar suggests, the very conflict of the universal—constituted as an ever-unfolding performative contradiction—also provides the emancipatory force needed to reinvigorate and reimagine contemporary politics and philosophy. In conversation with a range of thinkers from Marx, Freud, and Benjamin through Foucault, Derrida, and Scott, Balibar shows the power that resides not in the adoption of a single universalism but in harnessing the energies made available by \u003ci\u003eclaims\u003c\/i\u003e to universality in order to establish a common answerable to difference.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface: Equivocity of the Universal\u003c\/i\u003e   vii\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1\u003c\/b\u003e Racism, Sexism, Universalism: A Reply to Joan Scott and Judith Butler   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRacism and sexism: a single \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"community\"? \u003c\/i\u003e  5\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe institution and discriminatory function \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eof the universal \u003c\/i\u003e  8\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"Human essence,\" \"normality,\" \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eand \"anthropological differences\"\u003c\/i\u003e   14\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2\u003c\/b\u003e Constructions and Deconstructions of the Universal   19\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFirst Lecture\u003c\/i\u003e   19\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSecond Lecture\u003c\/i\u003e   39\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eSub Specie Universitatis\u003c\/i\u003e: Speaking the Universal in Philosophy   59\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStrategies of disjunction \u003c\/i\u003e  65\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStrategies of subsumption\u003c\/i\u003e   69\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStrategies of translation\u003c\/i\u003e   75\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4\u003c\/b\u003e On Universalism: In Dialogue with Alain Badiou   84\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5\u003c\/b\u003e A New Quarrel   96\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnthropological differences and \"human\" subjectivity \u003c\/i\u003e  97\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe desire to know \u003c\/i\u003e  103\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThree aporias of universality\u003c\/i\u003e   105\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"Les langues se parlent\"\u003c\/i\u003e   115\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e   121\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523204903192,"sku":"9780823288557","price":23.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/on-universals-constructing-and-deconstructing-community-paperback-softback-9780823288557","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}