Universality and Identity Politics / / Todd McGowan.
The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal emancipation. But in recent decades, much of the Left has grown suspicious of such aspirations. Critics see the invocation of universality as a form of domination or a way of speaking for others, and h...
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McGowan, Todd, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Universality and Identity Politics / Todd McGowan. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2020] ©2020 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION Finding Universality -- 1 OUR PARTICULAR AGE -- 2 THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ABSENT -- 3 UNIVERSAL VILLAINS -- 4 CAPITALISM’S LACK AND ITS DISCONTENTS -- 5 THIS IS IDENTITY POLITICS -- 6 THIS IS NOT IDENTITY POLITICS -- CONCLUSION Avoiding the Worst -- NOTES -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal emancipation. But in recent decades, much of the Left has grown suspicious of such aspirations. Critics see the invocation of universality as a form of domination or a way of speaking for others, and have come to favor a politics of particularism—often derided as “identity politics.” Others, both centrists and conservatives, associate universalism with twentieth-century totalitarianism and hold that it is bound to lead to catastrophe.This book develops a new conception of universality that helps us rethink political thought and action. Todd McGowan argues that universals such as equality and freedom are not imposed on us. They emerge from our shared experience of their absence and our struggle to attain them. McGowan reconsiders the history of Nazism and Stalinism and reclaims the universalism of movements fighting racism, sexism, and homophobia. He demonstrates that the divide between Right and Left comes down to particularity versus universality. Despite the accusation of identity politics directed against leftists, every emancipatory political project is fundamentally a universal one—and the real proponents of identity politics are the right wing. Through a wide range of examples in contemporary politics, film, and history, Universality and Identity Politics offers an antidote to the impasses of identity and an inspiring vision of twenty-first-century collective struggle. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023) Capitalism Political aspects. Identity politics. Political participation Social aspects. Right and left (Political science) Right and left (Political science). PHILOSOPHY / Political. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 9783110710977 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English 9783110704716 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 9783110704518 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Philosophy 2020 English 9783110704822 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Philosophy 2020 9783110704648 ZDB-23-DPH https://doi.org/10.7312/mcgo19770 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231552301 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231552301/original |
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