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 like Martin Heidegger, Ernst Cassirer, Frantz Fanon, and Walter Benjamin. As a whole the book attempts to respond 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. Instead,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847697932
• ISBN13: 9780847697939
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 8.9"