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Many on the Left have looked upon “universal” as a dirty word, one that signals liberalism’s failure to recognize the masculinist and Eurocentric assumptions from which it proceeds. In rejecting universalism, we have learned to reorient politics around particulars, positionalities, identities, immanence, and multiple modernities. In this book, one of our most important political philosophers builds on these critiques of the tacit exclusions of Enlightenment thought, while at the same time working to rescue and reinvent what universal claims can offer for a revolutionary politics answerable to the common.In the contemporary quarrel of universals, Balibar shows, the stakes are no less than the future of our democracies. In dialogue with such philosophers as Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, and Jacques Rancière, he meticulously investigates the paradoxical processes by which the universal is constructed and deconstructed, instituted and challenged, in modern society. With critical rigor and keen historical insight, Balibar shows that every statement and institution of the universal—such as declarations of human rights—carry an exclusionary, particularizing principle within themselves and that every universalism immediately falls prey to countervailing universalisms. Always equivocal and plural, the universal is thus a persistent site of conflict within societies and within subjects themselves.And yet, Balibar suggests, the very conflict of the universal—constituted as an ever-unfolding performative contradiction—also provides the emancipatory force needed to reinvigorate and reimagine contemporary politics and philosophy. In conversation with a range of thinkers from Marx, Freud, and Benjamin through Foucault, Derrida, and Scott, Balibar shows the power that resides not in the adoption of a single universalism but in harnessing the energies made available by claims to universality in order to establish a common answerable to difference.

Universals (Philosophy) --- Universal. --- aporia. --- citizenship. --- community. --- contradiction. --- dialectic. --- discrimination. --- exclusion. --- institution. --- performative. --- universalism. --- universality. --- university.

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'Another Modernity' is a rich study of the life and thought of Elia Benamozegh, a nineteenth-century rabbi and philosopher whose work profoundly influenced Christian-Jewish dialogue in twentieth-century Europe. Benamozegh, a Livornese rabbi of Moroccan descent, was a prolific writer and transnational thinker who corresponded widely with religious and intellectual figures in France, the Maghreb, and the Middle East. This idiosyncratic figure, who argued for the universalism of Judaism and for interreligious engagement, came to influence a spectrum of religious thinkers so varied that it includes proponents of the ecumenical Second Vatican Council, American evangelists, and right-wing Zionists in Israel.

Judaism. --- Judaism --- Christianity and other religions --- Universalism. --- Salus extra ecclesiam --- Universal salvation --- Salvation --- Salvation after death --- Brotherhood Week --- Jews --- Religions --- Semites --- Relations --- Christianity. --- Christianity --- Religion --- Benamozegh, Elia, --- Benamozegh, Elijah, --- Ben Amozeg, Eliyahu, --- Amozeg, Eliyahu ben, --- בן אמוזג, אליהו --- בן אמוזג, אליהו, --- בן אמוזג, 1822־1900 --- בנאנוזג, אליהו, --- Italian Judaism. --- Kabbalah. --- Moroccan Judaism. --- Noahide Laws. --- Orientalism. --- ethnocentrism. --- interreligious dialogue. --- modernity. --- religious Zionism. --- universalism.

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The Subject of Human Rights is the first book to systematically address the "human" part of "human rights." Drawing on the finest thinking in political theory, cultural studies, history, law, anthropology, and literary studies, this volume examines how human rights—as discourse, law, and practice—shape how we understand humanity and human beings. It asks how the humanness that the human rights idea seeks to protect and promote is experienced. The essays in this volume consider how human rights norms and practices affect the way we relate to ourselves, to other people, and to the nonhuman world. They investigate what kinds of institutions and actors are subjected to human rights and are charged with respecting their demands and realizing their aspirations. And they explore how human rights shape and even create the very subjects they seek to protect. Through critical reflection on these issues, The Subject of Human Rights suggests ways in which we might reimagine the relationship between human rights and subjectivity with a view to benefiting human rights and subjects alike.

Human Rights --- Human rights --- Subject (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Human rights - Philosophy --- Human rights. --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Philosophy. --- Law and legislation --- autonomy. --- education. --- humanism. --- humanity. --- subjectification. --- the subject. --- universalism.

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The articles in this volume present a variety of theoretical and historical cases to enlarge our understanding of religious conflict and coexistence. Seven out of the ten articles discuss cases of major religions in Korea, including Shamanism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Christianity. They explore the particularity of Korean religions in seeking theological and philosophical inclusiveness, playing a positive role in society and building stable interreligious relations. The other three articles cover non-Korean themes including religious conflict of interfaith families, a biblical analysis of particularism and universalism and a new interpretation of Paul’s letter to the Romans. All of these articles are aimed at identifying major causes of religious conflict and finding some effective solutions drawn from various theoretical and practical domains.

Religion & beliefs --- early Korean Catholicism --- Confucianism --- women and Catholicism --- Catholic saints --- particularism --- universalism --- intolerance --- purity --- Leviticus --- colonialism --- anti-Semitism --- Korean Buddhism --- Jinul --- sudden enlightenment --- gradual cultivation --- Korean Seon --- Zen --- potentiality and actuality --- Aristotelian metaphysics --- religious conflicts --- coexistence of religions --- Korean religions --- Jeju Island --- Buddhism --- syncretism --- harmonization (hoetong) --- Unified Silla (668–935) --- Goryeo (918–1392) --- New Testament --- the letter to Romans --- Paul --- sect --- cult --- anti-Jewish discourses --- Jews and gentiles --- unity --- second temple Judaism --- Roman empire --- Suun Choe Je-u --- Joseon dynasty --- Donghak --- religious pluralism --- mysticism --- ethics --- perennial philosophy --- enlightenment --- morality books --- spirit-writing --- Kwanwang shrines --- Thearch Kwan (Kwanje/Guandi) --- Three Sages --- Late Chosŏn --- Korea Christian Action Organization for Urban Industrial Mission (Saseon) --- Korean Protestantism --- Korean Catholicism --- social justice --- solidarity --- interfaith families --- public --- Christian --- Jewish --- gender --- United States --- n/a --- Unified Silla (668-935) --- Goryeo (918-1392) --- Late Chosŏn

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The articles in this volume present a variety of theoretical and historical cases to enlarge our understanding of religious conflict and coexistence. Seven out of the ten articles discuss cases of major religions in Korea, including Shamanism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Christianity. They explore the particularity of Korean religions in seeking theological and philosophical inclusiveness, playing a positive role in society and building stable interreligious relations. The other three articles cover non-Korean themes including religious conflict of interfaith families, a biblical analysis of particularism and universalism and a new interpretation of Paul’s letter to the Romans. All of these articles are aimed at identifying major causes of religious conflict and finding some effective solutions drawn from various theoretical and practical domains.

early Korean Catholicism --- Confucianism --- women and Catholicism --- Catholic saints --- particularism --- universalism --- intolerance --- purity --- Leviticus --- colonialism --- anti-Semitism --- Korean Buddhism --- Jinul --- sudden enlightenment --- gradual cultivation --- Korean Seon --- Zen --- potentiality and actuality --- Aristotelian metaphysics --- religious conflicts --- coexistence of religions --- Korean religions --- Jeju Island --- Buddhism --- syncretism --- harmonization (hoetong) --- Unified Silla (668–935) --- Goryeo (918–1392) --- New Testament --- the letter to Romans --- Paul --- sect --- cult --- anti-Jewish discourses --- Jews and gentiles --- unity --- second temple Judaism --- Roman empire --- Suun Choe Je-u --- Joseon dynasty --- Donghak --- religious pluralism --- mysticism --- ethics --- perennial philosophy --- enlightenment --- morality books --- spirit-writing --- Kwanwang shrines --- Thearch Kwan (Kwanje/Guandi) --- Three Sages --- Late Chosŏn --- Korea Christian Action Organization for Urban Industrial Mission (Saseon) --- Korean Protestantism --- Korean Catholicism --- social justice --- solidarity --- interfaith families --- public --- Christian --- Jewish --- gender --- United States --- n/a --- Unified Silla (668-935) --- Goryeo (918-1392) --- Late Chosŏn