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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 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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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Social & political philosophy

• Full title: Symbolic Forms for a New Humanity
• Subtitle: Cultural and Racial Reconfigurations of Critical Theory
• Author: Drucilla Cornell, Kenneth Michael Panfilio
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780823232505
• ISBN: 0823232506
• ID: 04941072
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Weight: 431 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. December 2010

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