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Universality and Identity Politics (Hardcover)
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Universality and Identity Politics (Hardcover)
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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.
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