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Just Ideas Ser.: Symbolic Forms for a New Humanity : Cultural and Racial Reconfigurations of Critical Theory by Drucilla Cornell and Kenneth Michael Panfilio (2010, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFordham University Press
ISBN-100823232514
ISBN-139780823232512
eBay Product ID (ePID)109030502
Product Key Features
Number of Pages224 Pages
Publication NameSymbolic Forms for a New Humanity : Cultural and Racial Reconfigurations of Critical Theory
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEuropean / German, Individual Philosophers, General, Political, Comparative
Publication Year2010
TypeNot Available
AuthorDrucilla Cornell, Kenneth Michael Panfilio
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Law, Political Science, Philosophy
SeriesJust Ideas Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Edition Number4
LCCN2010-003590
ReviewsThis is one of the rarest books. It belongs to the new genre of radical philosophical archeology: it resurrects the work of Ernst Cassirer, one of the great German idealists, and puts it to the task of developing a contemporary critical theory which confronts imperialism and neo-colonialism. Against dominant banal historicism, complacent positivism and the humanist apologia of capitalism, 'Symbolic Forms for a New Humanity' constructs a new type of ethical humanism: revived German idealism, black existentialism and radical constitutionalism come together to show how the symbolic and mythic foundations of reality open the possibility of the impossible. Dignity and equality are both impossible and barred in neo-liberal capitalism, yet they create the conditions of all possibility. As Cornell and Panfilio compellingly argue, the impossible has already started happening in the South African struggles against racialised capitalism, in the transformative constitution of the rainbow nation and in the most ancient and contemporary principles of uBuntu. At this point of retreat of the left, Cornell and Panfilio open new directions for critical thinking and offer a call to radical action. -----Costas Douzinas, Birkbeck, University of London, 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, 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, "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, "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, 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, "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
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal320.01
SynopsisIn 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 intellectual and political life. Indeed, the authors argue that the symbolic dimension of Cassirer's thinking of possibility can be linked to a symbolic dimension in revolution via the ideas of Frantz Fanon, who argued that revolution must be a thoroughgoing cultural process, in which what is at stake is nothing less than how we symbolize a new humanity and bring into being a new set of social institutions worthy of that new humanity., It has become commonplace to write about the vociferous appetite of colonialism and its insatiable devouring of modern life. In this book the authors expand on those ideas, showing how there has been a colonization of critical theory itself, fitted with prejudices that would limit knowledge to analytic reductions commensurate with so-called Western metaphysics. Against such a monolithic force, the authors posit the work of the oft-neglected German Idealist Ernst Cassirer in careful textual precision to unearth his contribution to critical theory via an in-depth understanding of symbolic forms in all of their richness and complexity. Such a maneuver allows an ethical humanism to emerge that grants equal importance and standing both to the intellectual heritage of Afro-Caribbean historicism and poeticism and to the long-ignored significance of black philosophies of existence. Each of these traditions provide searing indictments against imperialist domination of the so-called Third World and return such questions of domination to the realm of critical theory against some who would deny that we are still in an age of imperialism. The focus of this book is an exposition on the human condition that is then expanded upon to raise, and at times answer, some of the most important questions of "what is to be done" about the global racism, sexism, and poverty that have asymmetrically infected the livelihoods and ways of life for so many people who have been rendered beneath the register of humanity.
LC Classification NumberJA71.C5985 2010
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