Chapter 1: Universal Politics
Chapter 2: Universalisms Compared
Chapter 3: Universal Versus Decentralized Politics
Chapter 4: What a (Negative) Universal Politics Might Look Like
Today
Conclusion: After the System: the Challenges of a Universal
Politics
Ilan Kapoor is a Professor of Critical Development Studies at the
Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University,
Toronto. His research focuses on psychoanalytic and postcolonial
theory and politics, participatory development and democracy, and
ideology critique. He is the author of The Postcolonial Politics of
Development (2008), Celebrity Humanitarianism: The Ideology of
Global Charity (2013), and Confronting
Desire: Psychoanalysis and International Development (2020); and
editor of the collected volume, Psychoanalysis and the Global
(2018).
Zahi Zalloua is the Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and
Literature, Professor of French and Interdisciplinary Studies at
Whitman College, and Editor of The Comparatist. He is the author of
Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future (2021), Zizek on Race
Toward an Anti-Racist Future (2020), Theory's Autoimmunity:
Skepticism, Literature, and Philosophy (2018), Continental
Philosophy and the Palestinian Question: Beyond the Jew and the
Greek (2017), Reading Unruly: Interpretation and Its Ethical
Demands (2014), and Montaigne and the Ethics of Skepticism (2003).
He has also published articles, edited volumes, and special journal
issues on globalization, literary theory, psychoanalysis, and
cultural and trauma studies.
"In a world of escalating contradictions and looming catastrophes,
starkly increasing inequalities and exploitation, and devastation
of the environment produced by global capitalism, what is most
dearly needed is a passionate plea for universal politics provided
by this book. Between the tide of identity politics, with its
incapacity to address global issues, and the vicissitudes of
abstract universalism, Kapoor and Zalloua develop a powerful case
for a
reinvention of universality that does justice to radical
philosophical thought and to the invigoration of the politics of
solidarity." -- Mladen Dolar, University of Ljubljana, The European
Graduate School
"Universal Politics by Ilan Kapoor and Zahi Zalloua comes at a
moment that could not have been more timelyDLwhen the world seems
to be exploding with particularisms and when capital appears as the
only universal. Avoiding both the trap of neocolonial universalism
and the narrow particularism of identity-based politics, the book
develops a truly compelling concept of universal politics. An
absolute must-read for anyone interested in emancipatory
politics." -- Alenka Zupan%ci%c, Institute of Philosophy at the
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
"An important intervention that opens up the problematic
conceptualization of identity and ethical relationships in theories
of cosmopolitanism to the alternative notion of negative universal
politics and its corollary empty subject. Drawing principally on
the work of the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj %Zi%zek, Kapoor and
Zalloua demonstrate the importance of this universal politics
through various case studies that envision a common solidarity of
the excluded
around the concurrent double struggle against domination and
exploitation. They also prove the continued relevance of %Zi%zek's
ideas to contemporary leftist struggles. A must-read for concerned
political
theorists, cultural studies scholars, philosophers, and leftist
activists." -- Jamil Khader, Professor of English and Dean of
Research, Bethlehem University
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