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When the universalization of “Star Wars” is complete, it will no longer be a story but an aesthetic.

From The New Yorker • May 31, 2018

In a passage that could be called the universalization of the Protestant work ethic and the essentialization of the human, among other epithets, Marx declares that “free, conscious activity is man’s species-character.”

From Salon • Mar. 2, 2013

Whether Marx’s universalization of the human as homo faber is defensible or not, the contemporary world is deeply bought into the ideology of work.

From Salon • Mar. 2, 2013

The lead article discusses "the visionary international order" of the "second half of the twentieth century" marked by "the universalization of an American vision of commercial prosperity."

From Salon • Sep. 6, 2011

The Buddhist ideal is not self annihilation, but self universalization.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville