Universality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Universality write by Mark Ward. This book was released on 2002. Universality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a study of universality. The theory of universality uses fractal patterns to explain much of the world around us. Moreover, universality argues that there are similar patterns behind the most unpredictable events such as earthquakes, avalanches and stock market crashes.
Universality and Identity Politics
Universality and Identity Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Universality and Identity Politics write by Todd McGowan. This book was released on 2020-07-21. Universality and Identity Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal emancipation. But in recent decades, much of the Left has grown suspicious of such aspirations. Critics see the invocation of universality as a form of domination or a way of speaking for others, and have come to favor a politics of particularism—often derided as “identity politics.” Others, both centrists and conservatives, associate universalism with twentieth-century totalitarianism and hold that it is bound to lead to catastrophe. This book develops a new conception of universality that helps us rethink political thought and action. Todd McGowan argues that universals such as equality and freedom are not imposed on us. They emerge from our shared experience of their absence and our struggle to attain them. McGowan reconsiders the history of Nazism and Stalinism and reclaims the universalism of movements fighting racism, sexism, and homophobia. He demonstrates that the divide between Right and Left comes down to particularity versus universality. Despite the accusation of identity politics directed against leftists, every emancipatory political project is fundamentally a universal one—and the real proponents of identity politics are the right wing. Through a wide range of examples in contemporary politics, film, and history, Universality and Identity Politics offers an antidote to the impasses of identity and an inspiring vision of twenty-first-century collective struggle.
Symbols
Symbols - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Symbols write by comte Eugène Goblet d'Alviella. This book was released on 2000-01-01. Symbols available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This remarkable classic by a world expert on the evolution and migration of symbols explains in detail what a symbol is, how it served a culture, developed or fell into disuse. Considerable attention is paid to how various symbols have changed in meaning and form during their migrations. Among the configurations discussed: the triskelion, swastika, caduceus, double-headed eagle, "tree of life," lotus, and assorted crosses. 161 black-and-white illustrations plus 6 plates.
Towards Universality
Towards Universality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Towards Universality write by Richard Padovan. This book was released on 2013-07-04. Towards Universality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There is no shortage of books about Le Corbusier, or Mies van der Rohe, or De Stijl. However, this book considers them in relation to each other, observing how a study of one can illuminate the works of the others. Going beyond a superficial look at the end-products of these architects, this book examines the philosophical foundations of their work, taking as its central theme the aim of universality, as opposed to the individual and the particular. Each of these three aimed at universality, but for each this concept took on a different form. The universality of De Stijl and artists like Van Doesburg and Mondrian resembled that of the universe itself: it was boundless, going beyond the limits of the canvas and seeking to abolish the wall as the boundary between interior and exterior space. In contrast, each of Le Corbusier’s creations was a self-contained universe within a clear frame, while Mies fluctuated between these two perspectives.
Insurgent Universality
Insurgent Universality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Insurgent Universality write by Massimiliano Tomba. This book was released on 2019. Insurgent Universality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scholars commonly take the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789, written during the French Revolution, as the starting point for the modern conception of human rights. According to the Declaration, the rights of man are held to be universal, at all times and all places. But as recent crises around migrants and refugees have made obvious, this idea, sacred as it might be among human rights advocates, is exhausted. This book suggests that we need to think of a different idea of universality that exceeds the juridical universialism of the Declaration. Insurgent Universality investigates alternative trajectories of modernity that have been repressed, hindered, and forgotten. Investigating radical upheavals, Tomba excavates an alternative idea of universality that is based on popular political practices that disrupt and reject the existing political and economic order. The book shows how this tradition builds bridges between European and non-European political and social experiments.
