On Universals : constructing and deconstructing community (Record no. 33645)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780823288557
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 111.2
Item number BAL
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Balibar, Etienne
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Title On Universals : constructing and deconstructing community
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc Fordham University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2020
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent ix, 140 p. ;
Dimensions 23 cm
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 31.00
Price type code $
Unit of pricing 90.60
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Series statement Commonalities
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references.
Translated from the French.
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Summary, etc 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.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.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 claims to universality in order to establish a common answerable to difference.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Racism
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Sexism
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Univeralism
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Constructions
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Deconstructions
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Alain Badiou
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Anthropological differences
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Personal name Jordan, Joshua David
Relator term tr.
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          DAU DAU 2025-03-11 KBD 2808.60 111.2 BAL 035295 2025-03-20 Books

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