Indhold/Contents: Introduction: The Vicissitudes of Universality, p. 9-41 - Universality, Global Politics ans Hegemony. Ernesto Laclau in an Interview with Mads Anders Baggesgaard and Jacob Ladegaard, p. 43-54 - The Concept of Intermittency. Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason and Contemporary Frensh Philosophy/Andrew Gibson, p. 55-81 - Aesthetics of Empire. Affectc, Classs and the Universality of Consumption/ Kimberly DeFazio, p. 83-107 - The Ideology of Universalism. Or, One Good Reason to Celebrate Lenin/ Stefan Jonsson, p. 109-138 - Tasting the World. Universal Openness and New Boundaries in Contemporary Cultural Taste/Birgit Eriksson, p. 139-161 - Universality, Identity and Politics/Henrik Kaare Nielsen, p. 163-182 - Competing Universals. Sarkozy and Literature/ Mads Anders Baggesgaard, p.183-211 - Canons and Cartoons. On National Identity, Strategies of Reterritorialisation and the Role of Universitality in the Danish Cartoon Initiative and canon Projects/Camilla Møhring Reestorff & Carsten Stage, 213-239 - Universal Ostalgi. Hegelian Reflections on the Remembrance of the Berlin Wall/ Rasmus Ugilt Holten Jensen, p. 241-267 - A Thousand and One Voices/ Mieke Bal, p. 269-304 - The White Knight of Art. Das Beckwerk's Democratic Invasions/Jakob Ladegaard, p. 305-335 - Quantity or Quality? Some Reflections on the Paradoxes of the Icon Building as a 'Glocal' Phenomenon/ Malene Woltmann, p. 337-362.