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On universals : constructing and deconstructing community / Étienne Balibar ; translated by Joshua David Jordan.
Publisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2020Description: ix, 140 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780823288564
- 9780823288557 (pbk.)
Contents:
CONTENTS;
Preface: Equivocity of the Universal. . . . . . vii
1 Racism, Sexism, Universalism: A Reply to Joan Scott and Judith Butler . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Racism and sexism: a single “community”? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 The institution and discriminatory function of the universal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 “Human essence,” “normality,” and “anthropological differences” . . . . . . . . . . 14
2 Constructions and Deconstructions of the Universal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 First Lecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Second Lecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
3 Sub Specie Universitatis: Speaking the Universal in Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Strategies of disjunction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Strategies of subsumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Strategies of translation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
4 On Universalism: In Dialogue with Alain Badiou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 5 A New Quarrel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Anthropological differences and “ human” subjectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 The desire to know . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Three aporias of universality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 “Les langues se parlent” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115
Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
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CONTENTS;
Preface: Equivocity of the Universal. . . . . . vii
1 Racism, Sexism, Universalism: A Reply to Joan Scott and Judith Butler . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Racism and sexism: a single “community”? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 The institution and discriminatory function of the universal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 “Human essence,” “normality,” and “anthropological differences” . . . . . . . . . . 14
2 Constructions and Deconstructions of the Universal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 First Lecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Second Lecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
3 Sub Specie Universitatis: Speaking the Universal in Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Strategies of disjunction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Strategies of subsumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Strategies of translation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
4 On Universalism: In Dialogue with Alain Badiou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 5 A New Quarrel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Anthropological differences and “ human” subjectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 The desire to know . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Three aporias of universality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 “Les langues se parlent” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115
Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121