For a critical view on the notion of minority

Authors

  • Marcio Acselrad

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19177/rcc.v1e1200622-24

Keywords:

Minority, Illuminism, Universality, Reason, Enlightenment

Abstract

The objective of the present essay is to discuss the concept of minority from an Illuminist perspective, thus from a universal perspective. The intent is to show how the idea of minority is crossed by a reductivist and dichotomic identitary view, which contributes more to the separation of the particular than to the universal union, from the opposition to an assumed majority, inexistent, but always imagined and present.

Published

2006-06-01

Issue

Section

Articles