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A symposium paper on Moishe Postone's Time, Labor and Social Domination that focuses on two of the book's core assertions. First is Postone's claim that capital is the self-constituted "Subject" of our era, with "Subject" & its impetus understood in the Hegelian sense, a point that is thoroughly persuasive. Second is Postone's insistence that the necessary critique not be based in the social perspective of the proletariat, which is only half as convincing. Thus, while all of his claims about the necessity of "labor" as a category for the existing social whole are valid, none of them rule out the proletariat from shaping itself counter to capital, & from active resistance to wage slavery. 15 References. K. Coddon

A reflection on the ever-broadening debates between the proponents of universalism & particularism focuses on the emerging ambivalence in the central categories & the political implications of these discourses in interaction. Under the banner of democratic multicultural pluralism, the intervention of alternative postmodernist approaches into conventional Western imperialist foundationalism, traceable to the primacy of universalist values for the Enlightenment, is reflexively aware of the ultimately nihilist futility implied in a politics of pure difference. After sketching critiques of structural essentialism & foundationalism, & contributions to the debate by thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes, Plato, & G. W. F. Hegel, it is argued that the continual adjustment toward openness by the particular represents its only possible avenue to complete realization confronted with the universal. 23 References. J. Sadler