Symbolic Forms for a New Humanity: Cultural and Racial Reconfigurations of Critical Theory
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Description for Symbolic Forms for a New Humanity: Cultural and Racial Reconfigurations of Critical Theory
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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 symbolic
forms; 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 approach can be used as a powerful challenge to hegemonic modes of study that mistakenly place the Western world at the center of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823232512
SKU
V9780823232512
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About Cornell
Drucilla Cornell (Author) Drucilla Cornell was Professor Emerita of Political Science, Comparative Literature, and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University; Professor Extraordinaire at the University of Pretoria, South Africa; and a visiting professor at Birkbeck College, University of London. With a background in philosophy, law, and grassroots mobilization, she played a central role in the organization ... Read more
Reviews for Symbolic Forms for a New Humanity: Cultural and Racial Reconfigurations of Critical Theory
"An exciting and path-breaking work of philosophy ... the authors have not only broken new ground but have also opened up new discursive spaces into which many are likely to follow."
-Paget Henry Brown University "This is one of the rarest books. It belongs to the new genre of radical philosophical archeology: it resurrects the work of Ernst Cassirer, ... Read more
-Paget Henry Brown University "This is one of the rarest books. It belongs to the new genre of radical philosophical archeology: it resurrects the work of Ernst Cassirer, ... Read more