Minor Universality. Rethinking Humanity After Western Universalism (de Gruyter, 2022)
edited with Markus Messling, series: Beyond Universalism. Studies on the Contemporary (open-access, in French and English)
Short description
The circulation and entanglements of human beings, data, and goods have not necessarily and by themselves generated a universalising consciousness. The "global" and the "universal", in other words, are not the same. The idea of a world-society remains highly contested. Our times are marked by the fragmentation of a double relativistic character: the inevitable critique of Western universalism on the one hand, and resurgent identitarian and neo-nationalistic claims to identity on the other. Sources of an argumentation for a strong universalism brought forward by Western traditions such as Christianity, Marxism, and Liberalism have largely lost their legitimation. All the while, manifold and situated narratives of a common world that re-address the universal are under way of being produced and gain significance. This volume tracks the development and relevance of such cultural and social practices that posit forms of what we call minor universality. It asks: Where and how do contemporary practices open up concrete settings so as to create experiences, reflections and agencies of a shared humanity?
Contributors
Isaac Bazié, Anil Bhatti, Leyla Dakhli, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Albert Gouaffo, Stefan Helgesson, Christopher M. Hutton, Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Olivier Remaud, Gisèle Sapiro, Bénédicte Savoy, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, and many others
Download the book here
www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110798494/html?lang=en
edited with Markus Messling, series: Beyond Universalism. Studies on the Contemporary (open-access, in French and English)
Short description
The circulation and entanglements of human beings, data, and goods have not necessarily and by themselves generated a universalising consciousness. The "global" and the "universal", in other words, are not the same. The idea of a world-society remains highly contested. Our times are marked by the fragmentation of a double relativistic character: the inevitable critique of Western universalism on the one hand, and resurgent identitarian and neo-nationalistic claims to identity on the other. Sources of an argumentation for a strong universalism brought forward by Western traditions such as Christianity, Marxism, and Liberalism have largely lost their legitimation. All the while, manifold and situated narratives of a common world that re-address the universal are under way of being produced and gain significance. This volume tracks the development and relevance of such cultural and social practices that posit forms of what we call minor universality. It asks: Where and how do contemporary practices open up concrete settings so as to create experiences, reflections and agencies of a shared humanity?
Contributors
Isaac Bazié, Anil Bhatti, Leyla Dakhli, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Albert Gouaffo, Stefan Helgesson, Christopher M. Hutton, Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Olivier Remaud, Gisèle Sapiro, Bénédicte Savoy, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, and many others
Download the book here
www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110798494/html?lang=en