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Insurgent Universality offers a novel attempt to access history through a problematisation of the notion of universalism. Its main argument is based on three notions articulated in revolutionary events: temporalities, universality and insurgency. In this article we review their theoretical aspects, comment on their limitations, and outline potential reformulations.

The paper presents universality of some analytic functions, which is a very exceptional and useful property of zeta and L-functions. The property for the Riemann zeta-function was discovered by S. M. Voronin. Later, many mathematicians, such as S. M. Gonek, A. Reich, B. Bagchi, A. Laurinčikas, K. Matsumoto, R. Garunkštis, J. Steuding and others improved and generalized Voronin's theorem. Physicists examine numerous models from different branches of physics (from classical mechanics to statistical physics) where this function plays an integral role.

Explores the relation between nationalism & racism, focusing on the tendencies of both toward universalism & particularism. Nationalism struggles toward rationality & uniformity (universalism), while simultaneously perpetuating & nurturing the specific cultural symbols & traditions of the nation (particularism). It is suggested that racism furthers the ambiguity of nationalism by providing it with a cultural & historical common ground that belongs exclusively to the national population; this claim of cultural/race homogeneity is the theoretical & universal justification for policies of exclusion & oppression. On the other hand, racism offers context-specific opportunities to define nationalism in terms of race & thereby legitimize the elimination & expulsion of otherness within a particular historical & social framework. However, it is argued that the integration of race with nationalism is self-defeating due to the ambiguity of racial categorizations & the associated need to define the privileged race in terms of social class or the political elite. These class distinctions contradict the antielitism & social homogeneity sought by nationalism. It is concluded that the idealization of the dominant race catalyzed by racism eventually threatens nationalism. T. Sevier

This book develops a new conception of universality that helps us rethink political thought and action. 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.

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In my response to Harry Harootunian, Aldo Beretta, Rebecca Fritzl, Niklas Plaetzer, and Vanita Seth, I discuss some of the terms that constitute the theoretical plot of my book: insurgent, universality, temporality. I also discuss the methodology of my work and the difference between radical democracy, insurgent democracy, and what I call the democratic excess. Eventually, in my response to Seth, I show how the work method of Insurgent Universality is maximally distant from any ontological discourse.

Analyzes objections to affirmative action (AA) in terms of two general categories: (1) universalistic criticisms, suggesting that AA allows for special treatment to particular individuals & is incompatible with universality; & (2) particularistic criticisms, suggesting that doing away with hiring quotas would ensure equal treatment for all. These criticisms are based on inappropriate generalizations & misunderstandings of the relationship of the universal to the particular. AA was not established to provide preferential treatment to a particular segment, but to counter operative differences of impact. D. Generoli