Moral Images of Freedom

Drucilla Cornell is professor of political science, women's studies, and comparative literature at Rutgers University and has recently been appointed as chair of philosophy and law at the University of Cape Town. She has written numerous articles on contemporary continental thought, critical theory, grass-roots political and legal mobilization, jurisprudence, women's literature, feminism, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and political philosophy. A produced playwright, her plays The Dream Cure, Background Interference, and Lifeline have been performed in California, New York, Florida, and Ohio. Her dramatization of James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake runs every year in Dublin, Ireland.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 Introduction: The Struggle for Redemptive ImaginationChapter 3 Chapter 1: Kantian Beginnings to the Legacy of Critical Theory: The Harmonious Play of FreedomChapter 4 Chapter 2: Dignity in Dasein: The Between of Thrownness and HospitalityChapter 5 Chapter 3: Symbolic Form as Other: Ethical Humanism and the Vivifying Power of LanguageChapter 6 Chapter 4: Decolonizing Critical Theory: The Challenge of Black ExistentialismChapter 7 Chapter 5: Redemption in the Midst of Phantasmagoria: Dispelling the Fate of SocialismChapter 8 Conclusion: Heeding Piedade's Song: Toward a Transnational Feminist Solidarity

Climbing the highest mountains of philosophical reflection, Moral Images of Freedom is an illuminating and profound journey to a promised land of self-discovery and authentically grounded hope. Cornell remarkably manages to displace prevailing political pessimism with an inspiring vision of emancipatory politics and moral engagement.