TY  - GEN
AB  - 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 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.
AU  - Cornell, Drucilla, 
AU  - Panfilio, Kenneth Michael, 
DO  - 10.1515/9780823292714
DO  - doi
ID  - 1477893
JF  - Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
JF  - Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
KW  - LAW / Comparative.
LA  - eng
LA  - In English.
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N2  - 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 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.
SN  - 9780823292714
T1  - Symbolic Forms for a New Humanity :Cultural and Racial Reconfigurations of Critical Theory /
TI  - Symbolic Forms for a New Humanity :Cultural and Racial Reconfigurations of Critical Theory /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823292714
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