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It has become relatively commonplace to think of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences as eschewing an orientation toward universals, and focusing instead on the
exploration of differences, situations, and particularities of various kinds. At a time when the politics and aesthetics of difference are suspected to be largely compatible with the
universal advent of global capitalism, might the reassessment of universals and their dissemination remain a critical topic for academic scrutiny?
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We encourage an exceptionally broad range of answers to these questions from scholars in
all fields of the humanities and social sciences.
In particular, we hope to foster conversations about the following topics:
progress, stasis, and regression in history
figures, tropes, and paradoxes of the universal
the idea of a universal history
universality in aesthetics, hermeneutics, and/or literary theory
music and/or image as universal languages and a cultural particulars
human values, human rights, and the humanities
capitalism and anti-capitalism, and globalization
humanism, anti-humanism, and post-humanism
the interpretation of science, medicine, and technology
immigrants, outcasts, vagrants, & minor literatures
social media in history and the present
work, labor, housing, social welfare, insurance, & money as universals
the commodification of culture & the contested universality of mass culture
philosophy and truth, universality and relativism
the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of translation
democracy, cosmopolitanism and sovereignty
the meaning(s) of populism
criticism and critique as universals
the universality and particularity of media technologies
the question of universality in studies of gender and sexuality
universality and racial difference
Plato, the Sophists, the Stoics, Aristotle, Aquiquinas
Kant, Hegel, Arendt, and Badiou
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