Against Exceptionalism

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ID20249289
AutoresZahi Zalloua (0000-0001-8231-2136, Whitman College, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen13
Número2
Páginas50
Fecha de publicación2024-03-12
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHumanities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2076-0787 • E-ISSN: 2076-0787
EditorialMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/h13020050
OpenAlexW4392697670
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas19

In this article, I question the logic informing paradigms of trauma that ontologize and essentialize events, such as the Holocaust and chattel slavery, making them unique, incomparable exceptions that encapsulate or inaugurate the violence of Western modernity, while standing outside and above the order they found. In an effort to avoid the urge to rank that follows almost effortlessly from such ontologization, I mobilize the appeal to the universal undergirding the works of Slavoj Žižek and that of Frantz Fanon. Both Fanon and Žižek read racial trauma and racist violence in light of the eviscerating ontological effects of an imperialist capitalism that divides the world and segregates its peoples. Rather than opting for identity politics, however, these thinkers argue against ontologizing and exceptionalizing victims, in favor of elaborating a politics based on their concrete universality

Aesthetics · Appeal · Capitalism · Epistemology · Exceptionalism · Identity politics · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · The Holocaust · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychology

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