Symbolic Forms for a New Humanity: Cultural and Racial Reconfigurations of Critical Theory

by Kenneth Michael Panfilio and Drucilla Cornell

Book Overview

In dialogue with afro-caribbean philosophy, this book seeks in Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms a new vocabulary for approaching central intellectual and political issues of our time. For Cassirer, what makes humans unique is that we are symbolizing creatures destined to come into a world through varied symbolicforms; we pluralistically work with and develop these forms as we struggle to come to terms with who we are and our place in the universe.This...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823232506
• ISBN13: 9780823232505
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"