Badiou, Rosenzweig and the word `` Hebrew ''

... of good and evil, and intrinsically, keep little, if any, relation to an event that exceeds the situation. For Badiou, any existent political `` good '' is attested out from a universalistic `` confession '' of the Real of a `` situational nothingness, '' and not a particularist transference of the nihility. So the now familiar ( near ) commonplace related with Badiou: politics must be born from ...

Lebezniatnikov - The Peril of Liberty

... product merely of the private sphere, and within the public sphere treats all citizens as neutral objects.   By denying individual difference and identity, liberalism treats members in a universalistic manner.   However, given the history of social relations in the United States , universalism is no longer a just mechanism for treatment of individuals within society. Alexis de Tocqueville ...

..., is so deeply developed in American life because it is so "universalistic," i.e., it is a leveller of class distinctions and it ... automobile or a t.v.? All of these things are universalistic in their implications because the artificial resists the primitive. So ... with it. And all these devices help connect us to universalistic content, more diverse, more choice. The advent of mass manufacturing ...