Title
Symbolic Forms for a New Humanity : Cultural and Racial Reconfigurations of Critical Theory / ed. by Drucilla Cornell, Kenneth Michael Panfilio.
ISBN
9780823292714
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (224 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823292714 doi
Summary
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.
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System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
Series
Just Ideas
Available in Other Form
print 9780823232512
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
