| Moral Images of Freedom: A Future for Critical Theory Contributor(s): Cornell, Drucilla (Author) |
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ISBN: 0847697932 ISBN-13: 9780847697939 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $25.60 Product Type: Paperback - 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 (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 6.35" W x 8.93" (0.65 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. |