Universalist and particularist sensibilities coexisted within the same thinkers

Evidence

It would be wrong to consider these two wings of thought - the universalism and the particularism - as separate from each other. They should be regarded, rather, as two currents of sensibility that flowed along side by side, often within the same person, even when one or other sensibility became dominant in a particular place and time. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1744

Categorization

• XREF: This dual-current framing prefigures Harvey’s central argument about modernism and postmodernism as coexisting responses to time-space compression rather than clean period breaks — the core of the rival-periodization reading. — connects to: Critical Theory seeks the universal within the particular rather than above it — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 724; The incommensurability of universal and particular is the precondition for democracy — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 378

Broader Connections

• The incommensurability of universal and particular is the precondition for democracy #complicates (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 378