Más allá del multiculturalismo: crítica de la universalidad (concreta) abstracta

Article

Authorship

ALVAREZ, LUCIANA

Date

2010

Publishing House and Editing Place

Unisinos

Magazine

FILOSOFIA UNISINOS, vol. 11 (pp. 187-206) Unisinos

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The article intends to contribute to a clearer understanding of what various critical perspectives question regarding modern legal universality and to discuss analytical views that help to refl ect on the tension between universality and particularity beyond liberal multiculturalism. It starts from Hegel’s notion of concrete universality and then refers to some perspectives that have developed a critique of abstract modern universality, basically to the theories of Seyla Benhabib, Will Ky... The article intends to contribute to a clearer understanding of what various critical perspectives question regarding modern legal universality and to discuss analytical views that help to refl ect on the tension between universality and particularity beyond liberal multiculturalism. It starts from Hegel’s notion of concrete universality and then refers to some perspectives that have developed a critique of abstract modern universality, basically to the theories of Seyla Benhabib, Will Kymlicka, Iris Marion Young and Boaventura de Souza Santos, among others.