Minor Universality / Universalité mineure: Rethinking Humanity After Western Universalism / Penser l’humanité après l’universalisme occidental

book: Minor Universality / Universalité mineure

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2023

Minor Universality / Universalité mineure

Rethinking Humanity After Western Universalism / Penser l’humanité après l’universalisme occidental

Edited by: Markus Messling and Jonas Tinius
Funded by: European Research Council (ERC)

Volume 2 in the series Beyond Universalism / Partager l’universel

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110798494

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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 claims to identity on the other. Sources of an argumentation for a strong universalism brought forward by Western traditions such as Christianity, Marxism, and Liberalism have largely lost their legitimation. All the while, manifold and situated narratives of a common world that re-address the universal are under way of being produced and gain significance. This volume tracks the development and relevance of such cultural and social practices that posit forms of what we call minor universality. It asks: Where and how do contemporary practices open up concrete settings so as to create experiences, reflections and agencies of a shared humanity?

With contributions by Isaac Bazié, Anil Bhatti, Jean-Luc Chappey, Elsie Cohen, Leyla Dakhli, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Nicole Fischer, Albert Gouaffo, Stefan Helgesson, Fatma Hotait, Christopher M. Hutton, Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Mario Laarmann, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Olivier Remaud, Gisèle Sapiro, Bénédicte Savoy, Maria-Anna Schiffers, Laurens Schlicht, Sergio Ugalde Quintana, Hélène Thierard, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll.

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Markus Messling and Jonas Tinius, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents / Table des matières Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
On Minor Universality Markus Messling and Jonas Tinius Open Access Download PDF	1
Part I: Universality After Universalism / Première partie : L’universel après l’universalisme
What Might a Truly Universal Universalism Be? Thinking the Universal With Étienne Balibar Souleymane Bachir Diagne Open Access Download PDF	35
The Universal and the Particular: The Place of Similarity in Cultural Theory Anil Bhatti Open Access Download PDF	43
Le décentrement épistémologique conduit-il au relativisme ? Gisèle Sapiro Open Access Download PDF	57
Part II: Narrative (and) World Production / Deuxième partie : La fabrique narrative du monde
From Acoustic Space to the Global Village: Linearity and the Western Intellectual Imagination Christopher M. Hutton Open Access Download PDF	75
Porteurs d’universalité et fictions de l’Afrique-monde Isaac Bazié Open Access Download PDF	91
More-Than-Human Relations, or: Rethinking Narration and Relations With Bears Maria-Anna Schiffers Open Access Download PDF	105
Hybrid Aesthetics and Social Reality: Reading Caribbean Literature in the Postcolonial Present Mario Laarmann Open Access Download PDF	119
Precolonial Universality and Postcolonial Diversity: The Example of the Indian Subcontinent Rukmini Bhaya Nair Open Access Download PDF	137
Part III: Language, the Self, and Society / Troisième partie : Le langage, le sujet et la société
Par-delà la pureté de la langue : révolutions et jeux de langues dans le monde arabe contemporain Leyla Dakhli Open Access Download PDF	157
Multilingual Literatures and the Production of Universality Through Translation: Cassin, Diagne, Tawada Hélène Thiérard Open Access Download PDF	173
Exil et universalité Elsie Cohen Open Access Download PDF	191
Creolising Universality Ananya Jahanara Kabir Open Access Download PDF	215
Part IV: Restitutions and Reparations / Quatrième partie : Restitutions et réparations
Statues Also Trample Bénédicte Savoy Open Access Download PDF	233
Décentrer la question des restitutions : l’exemple des biens culturels issus de contextes coloniaux en Afrique face aux micro-histoires régionales Albert Gouaffo Open Access Download PDF	251
Repatriation From the Universal Museum: Iyagbon’s Mirror as a Performance of Minor-Universals Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll Open Access Download PDF	265
Part V: Human Rights and Universal Rights / Cinquième partie : Droits humains et droits universels
Utopies égalitaires. De l’égalité aux techniques d’égalités : retour sur le « sauvage de l’Aveyron », 1799–1830 Jean-Luc Chappey and Laurens Schlicht Open Access Download PDF	285
La violence et la construction du « commun » : la littérature internationaliste écrite au Mexique dans les années 1940 Sergio Ugalde Quintana Open Access Download PDF	305
Universality From Within: The Challenge of Black Consciousness in 1970s South Africa Stefan Helgesson Open Access Download PDF	323
Penser l’universel à travers le féminisme islamique Nicole Fischer and Fatma Hotait Open Access Download PDF	335
Raconter le vivant Olivier Remaud Open Access Download PDF	353
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	369
Index Open Access Download PDF	373

(Deutsch)

Languages: English, French
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics (Literary and Cultural Studies)
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 381
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 3
- Coloured Illustrations: 15
Keywords: universality; universalism (critique of); narratives; cultural agency

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Published: August 21, 2023
ISBN: 9783110798494

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Published: August 21, 2023
ISBN: 9783110798487