Moral images of freedom : a future for critical theory / Drucilla Cornell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cornell, Drucilla, author.

Series:

New critical theory.

New Critical Theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social ethics.

Critical theory.

Liberty--Philosophy.

Liberty.

Civil rights--Philosophy.

Civil rights.

Feminist ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Moral Images of Freedom resurrects the Kantian project of affirmative political philosophy and traces its oft-forgotten influences found in thinkers like Martin Heidegger, Ernst Cassirer, Frantz Fanon, and Walter Benjamin. As a whole the book attempts to respond 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. Instead, this book draws together a sweeping thread of hope in the varied symbolic forms of freedom persistent throughout the work of a broader range of

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Sans titre; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Struggle for Redemptive Imagination; Chapter 1 Kantian Beginnings to the Legacy of Critical Theory: The Harmonious Play of Freedom; Chapter 2 Dignity in Dasein: Between Thrownness and Hospitality; Chapter 3 Symbolic Form as Other: Ethical Humanism and the Vivifying Power of Language; Chapter 4 Decolonizing Critical Theory: The Challenge of Black Existentialism; Chapter 5 Redemption in the Midst of Phantasmagoria: Dispelling the Fate of Socialism

Conclusion: Heeding Piedade's Song-Toward a Transnational Feminist SolidarityBibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4616-4018-0

OCLC:

858231059