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Worldmaking after Empire w/ Adom Getachew

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The World as One Is

Sackly's new book is based on the late nineteenth century. The period was when european emperial expansion reached its height. Sackly argues that in this context we have to forego the idea of a universal principle or right to self-determination. And so what i want to show is that it wasn't actually a problem of the non realization of universal principles like self determination, but the ways in which they were ready from the beginning.

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