Drucilla Cornell

Moral Images of Freedom (eBook, ePUB)

A Future for Critical Theory

• Format: ePub

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: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781461640189
• Artikelnr.: 39512898

Autorenporträt

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