Minor Universality / Universalité Mineure: Rethinking Humanity After Western Universalism / Penser l'Humanité Après l'Universalisme Occidental

by Markus Messling and Jonas Tinius

The circulation and entanglements of human beings, data, and goods have not necessarily and by themselves generated a universalising consciousness. The "global" and the "universal", in other words, are not the same. The idea of a world-society remains highly contested. Our times are marked by the fragmentation of a double relativistic character: the inevitable critique of Western universalism on the one hand, and resurgent identitarian and neo-nationalistic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110798484
• ISBN13: 9783110798487
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"