Moral Images of Freedom: A Future for Critical Theory Contributor(s): Cornell, Drucilla (Author) |
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ISBN: 0847697924 ISBN-13: 9780847697922 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $69.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2007 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Philosophy | Political - Philosophy | Criticism |
Dewey: 172 |
LCCN: 2007012385 |
Series: New Critical Theory (Hardcover) |
Physical Information: 0.74" H x 6.48" W x 9.02" (0.91 lbs) 188 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |