Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-168) and index.
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.
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.
Moral Images of Freedom : A Future for Critical Theory.