Troubling Universalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6355745 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leonard Feldman (0009-0001-0778-478X), L C Feldman (0000-0002-3397-8262, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 517-518 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3497 • E-ISSN: 1744-1684 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/699835 |
| OpenAlex | W4244970371 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
In “Race, Internationalism, and Comparative Political Theory,” Navid Hassanzadeh critiques those attempts to address the insufficiencies of universalism that simply add non-Western traditions to the canon.1 He shows how the work of W.E.B. Du Bois offers a more productive approach, in which universal norms like democracy are rethought and transformed through an investigation of the black political experience in the United States and the international racism of Western-led modernization. In “Justice, Not Happiness: Aristotle on the Common Good,” Mark Hoipkemier offers a more particularist Aristotle, arguing that the common good in Aristotle’s work is not a singular and universal standard of virtue but rather is flexible and relative to a particular political regime.2 Finally, Tony Spanakos and Esther Jordan, the editors of the symposium on the work of Howard Wiarda, suggest that his most important legacy was his “consistent critique of determinist and universal paradigms in comparative politics and in U.S. foreign policy” and his insistence “on the importance of understanding local political culture and historic traditions.”3 Accordingly, contributors to the symposium describe Wiarda’s rejection of modernization theory and assertion of cultural explanations (Wilson, Crepaz, Wylie), his criticism of ethnocentrism and neoliberal development paradigms (Karreth), and his attempt to articulate a Latin American variety of corporatism (Chen).4 Other articles in the symposium describe Wiarda’s engagement with think tanks (Fauriol), his focus on informal phenomena (Jordan), his claims about the Latinamericanization of U.S. politics (Spanakos), and his critique of U.S. efforts to promote human rights and democracy (Root).5
Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Localism · Political science · Politics · Psychological nativism · Sociology · Universalism · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Race, History, and American Society
Howard J. Wiarda’s Other Life
Reframing the Informal in Wiarda’s Observations of U.S. Policy Making
Race, Internationalism, and Comparative Political Theory
Corporatism Reconsidered
The Place and Purpose of Grand Theory
Development in Theory and Practice
How Wiarda Got Human Rights Wrong
Justice, Not Happiness
Of Paradigms Won and Lost
Introduction
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |