Ebook: On Universals: Constructing and Deconstructing Community

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. Balibar builds on these critiques, yet works to rescue and reinvent what universal claims can offer for a revolutionary politics answerable to the common.

From Hegel to Butler and Spinoza to Freud, Balibar continues his penetrating, wide-ranging exploration of the contradictory forms of belonging that underpin contemporary political theory and politics.