<p>Many on the Left have looked upon โuniversalโ as a dirty word, one that signals liberalismโs failure to recognize the masculinist and Eurocentric assumptions from which it proceeds. Balibar builds on these critiques, yet works to rescue and reinvent what universal claims can offer for a revolutio
On Universals: Constructing and Deconstructing Community
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- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 159
- Category
- Library
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