Just Cause: Freedom, Identity, and Rights

by Drucilla Cornell

Book Overview

One of the distinguishing features of Drucilla Cornell's work is its emphasis on the significance of ideals. The essays collected here examine how the ideals of freedom and equality associated with the democratic revolutions of the West have survived the challenges of twentieth century critiques. Cornell argues that, far from threatening these ideals, feminism, race theory and other new theories have deepened their meaning and so allowed them to survive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847697916
• ISBN13: 9780847697915
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 9.0"