Universality and Identity Politics

This book develops a new conception of universality that helps us rethink political thought and action. 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.

List of 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

About the author

Todd McGowan

Summary

This book develops a new conception of universality that helps us rethink political thought and action. 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.

Additional text

He calls for uniting the process of emancipation for some with the universal project of emancipation for all.

Product details

• Authors: Todd McGowan, Todd (University of Vermont) Mcgowan, McGowan Todd
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780231197700
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19770-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Critical Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Political science and theory, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis