Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity

ISBN-13: 9780197577233 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 300 str.

Massimiliano Tomba

Recenzje

At a time when alternative possibilities for the future seem foreclosed by the unyielding trajectories of the past, Tomba offers a brilliantly creative model for thinking politically. The prison-house of neoliberal capitalist rationality bemoaned by contemporary critics is powerfully challenged by Tomba's concept of 'insurgent universality.' Such universality breaks open the linear development of modernity and its spectre of necessity to reveal a dynamic interplay of radical practices that make visible how things could have been otherwise. This is not a counterfactual story of modernity but one rooted inactual events of resistance to domination. At once a theoretical and historical tour de force, this agenda-setting book transforms how we think about modernity and the transformative power of political imagination and collective action.

O autorze

Massimiliano Tomba is Professor in the History of Consciousness Department at University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Marx's Temporalities.