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 worl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Cornell, Drucilla (Editor ), Panfilio, Kenneth Michael (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Colección:Just Ideas
Temas:
LAW / Comparative.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1 The World of Symbolic Forms: Ernst Cassirer and the Legacy of Immanuel Kant
  • 2 The Word Magic of Being: On the Mythical Origins of Thinking
  • 3 The Always Unfinished Project of Modernity: The Fragile Life of Symbols
  • 4 Transformative Revolution: Repairing the Fractured Ethical World
  • 5 Unfree Black Labor: The Telos of History and the Struggle against Racialized Capitalism
  • Conclusion: The Work of Transformative Constitutionalism
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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