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Universalism is collapsing in real time. As Western hegemony wanes, the promise of universal values is unmasked as a parochial inheritance; and as AI systems multiply, universal truths transform into computed artifacts emerging from a particular code and training.
In Concrete Universality, Lorenzo Marsili argues that the choice is not between a bankrupt universalism and an 'anything goes' relativism. He proposes a third path: universality as a practice of worldmaking. Drawing on Chinese philosophy, European thought and the contemporary metaphysics embedded in artificial intelligence and quantum mechanics, Marsili develops the concept of ontopoiesis: the idea that reality is not simply found but continuously produced through relations, cuts, and forms of mediation.
This approach gives rise to a new political method. Universals are not timeless abstractions; they are fragile mortal achievements - concrete agreements and institutions that make the same thing visible to everyone, for a time, in a context. Marsili calls this 'concrete universality' - the formation of shared, binding practices that emerge from situated encounters yet gain planetary resonance, from nuclear regulation to digital ethics, from climate policy to cultural restitution. Here, universality is not a static ideal but an unfinished voyage whose horizons move as humanity moves.
This book is an erudite and impassioned manifesto for a planetary philosophy - a way of weaving together a fragmenting planet, one universal at a time.
Contents
Introduction: of Nations and Truths
The end of universalism
Geopolitical Enlightenment
If the West is dead, all is allowed
Borges' paradox
Cuius algorithmus, eius veritas
Protocols of Truth
Ontopoiesis
Ontopoiesis
The origins
Mourning the withdrawal of Being: from Eros to the Monotopia
Truth is a betrayal
Creatio ex omnibus
Where befits the moment
But how is the world, truly?, where truths collide
The Tetralemma
So all is transformation?
The phenomenon - the wave
Bartleby's Principle
What is a thing?
Natural and artificial intelligence
Ontology as Practical Philosophy
Protocols
Truth under protocol
A protocol individuates meaning
A protocol creates a subjectivity
Hemispheres
The ethos of universality
Persuasion
Universals are political facts
Concrete universals
Concrete universals summon everyone
Universals are mortal creatures
Geophilosophy
A discourse of the world by the world
Coda: Universality as Method
Universal empire
Universal Republic
The cosmopolitan dilemma
The strength of weak ties
The Acquis Communautaire
The Acquis Universel
I am a part of all I have met
