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“marvelously exotic” traders or wandering Jews disturbed patterns of every-
day life in the early modern town. Warner notes, however, that the presence
of the stranger is no longer exceptional, but, on the contrary, inscribed into
to the very nature of modern polities, “Publics and Counterpublics,” 56.
40.harles Taylor, “Modern Social Imaginaries,” C Public Culture 14, no. 1
(2002): 114.
- Arendt, The Human Condition, 189.
- Warner, “Publics and Counterpublics,” 88.
- Turner, Dramas, Fields and Metaphors, 39.
- Göle, “Islam in Public,” 186.
45.s is where the distinction between being in the world and being of the Thi
world becomes most evident. Cf. Jacques Taminiaux, La Fille de Thrace et le
penseur professionnel: Arendt et Heidegger (Paris: Payot, 1992), 162.
46.enri Lefebvre, H The Production of Space (Oxford, UK, and Cambridge, MA:
Blackwell, 1991), 53.
47.. Warner’s claims as to the mental/imaginary constitution of publics, Cf
“Publics and Counterpublics,” 82ff.
48.raig Calhoun, “Imagining Solidarity: Cosmopolitanism, Constitutional C
Patriotism, and the Public Sphere,” Public Culture 14, no. 1 (2002): 148–149.
49.o quote at length Slavoj Zizek, “The One Measure of True Love Is: T
You Can Insult the Other” (interviewed by Sabine Reul and Thomas
Deichmann), Spiked, 15 November 2001, http://www.spiked-online.
com/Articles/00000002D2C4.htm: “Here I need to ask myself a simple
Habermasian question: how can we ground universality in our experience?
Naturally, I don’t accept this postmodern game that each of us inhabits his
or her particular universe. I believe there is universality. But I don’t believe
in some a priori universality of fundamental rules or universal notions. The
only true universality we have access to is political universality. Which is
not solidarity in some abstract idealist sense, but solidarity in struggle. If
we are engaged in the same struggle, if we discover that—and this for me
is the authentic moment of solidarity—being feminists and ecologists, or
feminists and workers, we all of a sudden have this insight: ‘My God, but
our struggle is ultimately the same!’ This political universality would be the
only authentic universality. And this, of course, is what is missing today,
because politics today is increasingly a politics of merely negotiating com-
promises between different positions.”