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849805
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Cornell, Drucilla.
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Moral Images of Freedom : : a Future for Critical Theory.
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| Publication Statement
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Lanham :: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,, 2007.
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| Series Statement
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New Critical Theory
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1 online resource (194 pages).
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| ISBN
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1461640180
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: 9781461640189
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0847697924
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0847697932
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9780847697922
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9780847697939
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-168) and index.
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| Contents
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Cover Page; Title Page; Sans titre; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Struggle for Redemptive Imagination; Chapter 1 Kantian Beginnings to the Legacy of Critical Theory: The Harmonious Play of Freedom; Chapter 2 Dignity in Dasein: Between Thrownness and Hospitality; Chapter 3 Symbolic Form as Other: Ethical Humanism and the Vivifying Power of Language; Chapter 4 Decolonizing Critical Theory: The Challenge of Black Existentialism; Chapter 5 Redemption in the Midst of Phantasmagoria: Dispelling the Fate of Socialism.
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Conclusion: Heeding Piedade's Song-Toward a Transnational Feminist SolidarityBibliography; Index; About the Author.
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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, this book draws together a sweeping thread of hope in the varied symbolic forms of freedom persistent throughout the work of a broader range of.
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Civil rights-- Philosophy.
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Critical theory.
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Feminist ethics.
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Liberty-- Philosophy.
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Social ethics.
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Civil rights-- Philosophy.
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Critical theory.
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Feminist ethics.
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Freiheit
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Freiheit.
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Kritische Theorie
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Kritische Theorie.
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Liberty-- Philosophy.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- General.
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Politische Philosophie.
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Social ethics.
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Sozialethik
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Sozialethik.
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| Dewey Classification
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172
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| LC Classification
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HM665 .C674 2008
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