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Universal Emancipation : Race Beyond Badiou by Elisabeth Paquette is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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A vital and timely contribution to the growing scholarship on the political thought of Alain Badiou Is inattention to questions of race more than just incidental to Alain Badiou's philosophical system? Universal Emancipation reveals a crucial weakness in the approach to (in)difference in political life of this increasingly influential French thinker. With white nationalist movements on the rise, the tensions between commitments to universal principles and attention to difference and identity are even more pressing. Elisabeth Paquette's powerful critical analysis demonstrates that Badiou's theory of emancipation fails to account for racial and racialized subjects, thus attenuating its utility in thinking about freedom and justice. The crux of the argument relies on a distinction he makes between culture and politics, whereby freedom only pertains to the political and not the cultural. The implications of this distinction become evident when she turns to two examples within Badiou's theory: the Négritude movement and the Haitian Revolution. According to Badiou's 2017 book Black , while Négritude is an important cultural movement, it cannot be considered a political movement becaus
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Elisabeth Paquette
- Publisher
- Univ Of Minnesota Press; University of Minnesota Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781517909437
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Science, Political Science