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Symbolic forms for a new humanity : cultural and racial reconfigurations of critical theory / Drucilla Cornell and Kenneth Michael Panfilio.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cornell.
- Series:
- Just ideas.
- Just ideas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945--Criticism and interpretation.
- Cassirer, Ernst.
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Symbolism--Political aspects.
- Symbolism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 205 p. )
- Edition:
- 1版.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- In dialogue with Afro-Caribbean philosophy, this book seeks in Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms a new vocabulary for approaching central intellectual and political issues of our time.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- The World of Symbolic Forms: Ernst Cassirer and the Legacy of Immanuel Kant
- The Word Magic of Being: On the Mythical Origins of Thinking
- The Always Unfinished Project of Modernity: The Fragile Life of Symbols
- Transformative Revolution: Repairing the Fractured Ethical World
- Unfree Black Labor: The Telos of History and the Struggle against Racialized Capitalism
- Conclusion: TheWork of Transformative Constitutionalism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-3564-5
- 0-8232-3252-2
- OCLC:
- 764551606
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