On Universals

Kaavio näyttää kunkin havaintopäivän alimman tallennetun tuotehinnan. Havaintojen välistä hintaa ei ole vahvistettu.

Alin havaittu

32,80 €

Korkein havaittu

35,30 €

Viimeisin historian havainto

13.11.2026

Tuotetiedot

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

Brändi

fordham university press

EAN / GTIN

9780823288557