Moral Images of Freedom: A Future for Critical Theory

By Drucilla Cornell

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847697932
• ISBN13: 9780847697939
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 8.9"