Universalism from Below / Universalismus von unten
A Theory of Radical Equality
How do we create immediate, lived practices of equality?
The more worrying things around us become, the more palpably we sense how deeply we depend on one another globally. But although we are all vulnerable, vulnerability is an unequally distributed commodity. But how can we conceptualise inequality through the body?
In this captivating book, Jule Govrin uses debt and austerity policies to examine how people are made unequal through differential forms of exploitation. At the same time, Govrin sets out to uncover lived forms of equality in...
In this captivating book, Jule Govrin uses debt and austerity policies to examine how people are made unequal through differential forms of exploitation. At the same time, Govrin sets out to uncover lived forms of equality in...
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The more worrying things around us become, the more palpably we sense how deeply we depend on one another globally. But although we are all vulnerable, vulnerability is an unequally distributed commodity. But how can we conceptualise inequality through the body?
In this captivating book, Jule Govrin uses debt and austerity policies to examine how people are made unequal through differential forms of exploitation. At the same time, Govrin sets out to uncover lived forms of equality in the present. In this way, equality ceases to be some distant ideal and is instead conceived of as a precarious practice that foregrounds practices of mutual aid and care. In structures based on solidarity and egalitarian politics of the body, we can ascertain fleeting glimpses of a universalism from below.
In this captivating book, Jule Govrin uses debt and austerity policies to examine how people are made unequal through differential forms of exploitation. At the same time, Govrin sets out to uncover lived forms of equality in the present. In this way, equality ceases to be some distant ideal and is instead conceived of as a precarious practice that foregrounds practices of mutual aid and care. In structures based on solidarity and egalitarian politics of the body, we can ascertain fleeting glimpses of a universalism from below.
2024, 499 pages
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Jule Govrin
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Jule Govrin has a PhD in philosophy and their research is situated at the intersections of social philosophy, political theory, feminist philosophy, and aesthetics. Govrin was most recently a visiting professor at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Jule Govrin
Autor
Jule Govrin has a PhD in philosophy and their research is situated at the intersections of social philosophy, political theory, feminist philosophy,...