Drucilla Cornell

Moral Images of Freedom

A Future for Critical Theory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Moral Images of Freedom resurrects the Kantian project of affirmative political philosophy and traces its oft-forgotten influences found in thinkers such as Martin Heidegger, Ernst Cassirer, Frantz Fanon, and Walter Benjamin. Drucilla Cornell responds to nihilistic claims about the empty purpose of critical theory in a world so utterly captured by violence in all of its worst forms: economic, social, political, and cultural. Cornell instead draws together a sweeping thread of hope in the varied symbolic forms of freedom persistent throughout the work of a broader range of critical theorists and addresses the burning challenge for such work to respond seriously to the need for a decolonization of critical theory itself and a sustained commitment to the possible future of socialism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9780847697939
• ISBN-10: 0847697932
• Artikelnr.: 22820069

Autorenporträt

By Drucilla Cornell

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction: The Struggle for Redemptive
Imagination Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Kantian Beginnings to the Legacy of
Critical Theory: The Harmonious Play of Freedom Chapter 4 Chapter 2:
Dignity in Dasein: The Between of Thrownness and Hospitality Chapter 5
Chapter 3: Symbolic Form as Other: Ethical Humanism and the Vivifying Power
of Language Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Decolonizing Critical Theory: The
Challenge of Black Existentialism Chapter 7 Chapter 5: Redemption in the
Midst of Phantasmagoria: Dispelling the Fate of Socialism Chapter 8
Conclusion: Heeding Piedade's Song: Toward a Transnational Feminist
Solidarity