If humans were all ONLY representatives of structure and universals, why bother with humanity at all? If one is interested in that level of abstraction, one would be better off studying pure mathematics. After all, abstractions only beget abstractions, with no benefit for humanity in sight.
The only alternative is to consider that universals (such as those relating to history and its production of identities) also have an emotional component, such that everything remotely human is also, necessarily, "all about humans and our precious feelings."
I think my position here is the most logical and unavoidable one.
Of course, this no way implies that we should indulge in emotionalism, but I think that the reason "feelings" are so fraught in Western society (and, indeed, so politicised) is because they have been denied for so long. If they were just another part of our beings,as they should be, we would no doubt pay them much less attention than we do now.
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