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Insurgent Universality - An Alternative Legacy of Modernity (Hardcover)
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Insurgent Universality - An Alternative Legacy of Modernity (Hardcover)
Series: Heretical Thought
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Scholars commonly take the Declaration of the Rights of Man and
Citizen of 1789, written during the French Revolution, as the
starting point for the modern conception of human rights. According
to the Declaration, the rights of man are held to be universal, at
all times and all places. But as recent crises around migrants and
refugees have made obvious, this idea, sacred as it might be among
human rights advocates, is exhausted. It's long past time to
reconsider the principles on which Western economic and political
norms rest. This book advocates for a tradition of political
universality as an alternative to the juridical universalism of the
Declaration. Insurgent universality isn't based on the idea that we
all share some common humanity but, rather, on the democratic
excess by which people disrupt and reject an existing political and
economic order. Going beyond the constitutional armor of the
representative state, it brings into play a plurality of powers to
which citizens have access, not through the funnel of national
citizenship but in daily political practice. We can look to recent
history to see various experiments in cooperative and insurgent
democracy: the Indignados in Spain, the Arab Spring, Occupy, the
Zapatistas in Mexico, and, going further back, the Paris Commune,
the 1917 peasant revolts during the Russian Revolution, and the
Haitian Revolution. This book argues that these movements belong to
the common legacy of insurgent universality, which is characterized
by alternative trajectories of modernity that have been repressed,
hindered, and forgotten. Massimiliano Tomba examines these events
to show what they could have been and what they can still be. As
such he explores how their common legacy can be reactivated.
Insurgent Universality analyzes the manifestos and declarations
that came out of these experiments considering them as collective
works of an alternative canon of political theory that challenges
the great names of the Western pantheon of political thought and
builds bridges between European and non-European political and
social experiments.
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