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portada Symbolic Forms for a new Humanity: Cultural and Racial Reconfigurations of Critical Theory (Just Ideas) (in English)
Type
Physical Book
Year
2010
Language
English
Pages
176
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780823232505
ISBN13
9780823232505
Edition No.
1

Symbolic Forms for a new Humanity: Cultural and Racial Reconfigurations of Critical Theory (Just Ideas) (in English)

Drucilla Cornell; Kenneth Michael Panfilio (Author) · Fordham University Press · Hardcover

Symbolic Forms for a new Humanity: Cultural and Racial Reconfigurations of Critical Theory (Just Ideas) (in English) - Drucilla Cornell; Kenneth Michael Panfilio

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Synopsis "Symbolic Forms for a new Humanity: Cultural and Racial Reconfigurations of Critical Theory (Just Ideas) (in English)"

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 symbolicforms; 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 isat 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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