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Abstract
This study addresses the post-modern challenge to the idea of humanity. Postmodernists such as Foucault
reject political appeals to humanity arguing that they deploy suspect metaphysical and ontological notions
to mask domination. We share these postmodern suspicions of robust ontologies and the suspicions of
political power that accompany them. Nevertheless, we think that the idea of humanity is worth preserving.
We do not pursue the traditional aims of political theorists by grounding politics in a strong ontology or
metaphysics of human nature. Instead, we ask how to resist politics on behalf of humanity. We begin by
explicating two conceptions of politics while accepting both the perils and dignity of political action. We
then elaborate notions of resistance that would prevent politics from consuming all of our lives. We present
four ways of affirming humanity on whose behalf we might engage in resistance. We conclude by
exploring the ambiguity of resistance and the fragility of the humanity we hope to defend from politics.
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