The Statement self-consciously revised constitutional universalism toward generational particularity.

Evidence

”We are people of this generation” at once points clearly toward ”We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union,” and also points powerfully away from the universalism of the Constitution: ”We are people” instead of ”We the People” specifies particular people, as does ”of this generation,” substituting limited particularity for the Constitution’s generalizing, universalizing claims for ”a more perfect Union.” — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 442

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: phs simultaneously particularized and universalized its white male subjectivity — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 452; Modern individualism shifted from freedom-as-such to the value of being this specific irreplaceable self — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 2844; Parsonian modernization theory treats the United States as the teleological end-state of all societies — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 158 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Modern individualism shifted from freedom-as-such to the value of being this specific irreplaceable self #corroborates (0.80) — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 2844
• Theoretical universalizations can recuperate difference into old Enlightenment universalist frameworks #responds-to (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 409
• Parsonian modernization theory treats the United States as the teleological end-state of all societies #corroborates (0.75) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 158
• The incommensurability of universal and particular is the precondition for democracy #corroborates (0.72) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 378