Universalization is an irreducible moment in any discourse.

Evidence

So, I am fundamentally concerned with that heterogeneity hut I chose a universal discourse in that moment because I felt that rather than define myself as repudiating universality, because universalisation, finalisation, is an irreducible moment in any discourse - rather than define myself as specific rather than universal - I should see what in the universalizing dis- course could be useful and then go on to see where that discourse meets its limits and its challenge within that field. — Elizabeth Grosz, Criticism, Feminism and the Institution, 120

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The premise that universalization is an irreducible structural moment in all discourse reframes the whole strategic-essentialism debate: the question is never whether to escape universality but which universal to inhabit — teasing this out would reward long reflection.
• XREF: Echoes Foucault’s premise that counter-histories must re-occupy power’s terrain rather than step outside it. — connects to: The essentializing moment that criticism attacks is itself irreducible. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1762; Universal generalization is a totalitarian imposition on the world — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 162; Universality arises only from a specific grounded voice, not abstraction (+3 more)

Related

• The essentializing moment that criticism attacks is itself irreducible. (similarity 0.86)
• Theoretical universalizations can recuperate difference into old Enlightenment universalist frameworks (similarity 0.83)
• Universality arises only from a specific grounded voice, not abstraction (similarity 0.83)
• Strategic essentialism meant reusing hegemonic universals, not repudiating them. (similarity 0.83)
• Essentializing is unavoidable even in anti-essentialist critique, so it should be deployed consciously. (similarity 0.82)
• Universal generalization is a totalitarian imposition on the world (similarity 0.82)
• Universality arises only from a specific enclosure crying out (similarity 0.81)
• Essentialism used strategically remains hostage to the irreducible essentializing moment it criticizes. (similarity 0.79)
• A theory’s universality is shown by its capacity to illuminate new concrete situations. (similarity 0.79)
• Universality is the primitive soul’s initial stage, not its final truth (similarity 0.78)
• Philosophic universals designate unrealized potentialities rather than existing states (similarity 0.78)
• Universalist and particularist sensibilities coexisted within the same thinkers (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The essentializing moment that criticism attacks is itself irreducible. #expands (0.85) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1762
• Universal generalization is a totalitarian imposition on the world #complicates (0.85) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 162
• Universality arises only from a specific grounded voice, not abstraction #complicates (0.80)
• Universalizing discourse silences the specific wounds of the colonized. #qualifies (0.80)
• Readings that efface subjectivity to reach universality are actually particular and arbitrary #qualifies (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1230
• A universal is merely a mental sign that signifies many individual things #qualifies (0.75) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 1795