Drucilla Cornell: 15 books
Beyond Accommodation
Ethical Feminism, Deconstruction, and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
This new edition of Drucilla Cornell's highly acclaimed book includes a substantial new introduction by the author, which situates the book within current feminist debates. In Beyond Accommodation, Drucilla Cornell offers a highly original vision of what feminist theory can give contemporary women....
by Drucilla Cornell
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
In The Philosophy of the Limit Drucilla Cornell examines the relationship of deconstruction to questions of ethics, justice and legal interpretation. She argues that renaming deconstruction "the philosophy of the limit" will allow us to be more precise about what deconstruction actually...
Moral Images of Freedom
A Future for Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2007
Moral Images of Freedom resurrects the Kantian project of affirmative political philosophy and traces its oft-forgotten influences found in thinkers such as Martin Heidegger, Ernst Cassirer, Frantz Fanon, and Walter Benjamin. Drucilla Cornell responds to nihilistic claims about the empty purpose of...
Transformations
Recollective Imagination and Sexual Difference
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In a unique rethinking of political transformation, Drucilla Cornell argues for the crucial role of psychoanalysis in social theory in voicing connection between our constitution as gendered subjects and social and political change.
Defending Ideals
War, Democracy, and Political Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004
In this book, Drucilla Cornell examines the crisis on the left and asks how we can turn back toward more left-wing ideals. She looks at the meaning of freedom through various lenses as well as the dissolution of feminism. She discusses and critiques such major thinkers as: Amartya Sen, Adorno, Martha Nussbaum, John Rawls, Richard Falk, and Paul Berman among others.
Albie Sachs and Transformation in South Africa
From Revolutionary Activist to Constitutional Court Judge
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Many critical theorists talk and write about the day after the revolution, but few have actually participated in the constitution of a revolutionary government. Emeritus Justice Albie Sachs was a freedom fighter for most of his life. He then played a major role in the negotiating committee for the...
by Drucilla Cornell
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
In this risk-taking book, a major feminist philosopher engages the work of the actor and director who has progressed from being the stereotypical “man’s man” to pushing the boundaries of the very genres—the Western, the police thriller, the war or boxing movie—most associated with American...
The Mandate of Dignity
Ronald Dworkin, Revolutionary Constitutionalism, and the Claims of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
A major American legal thinker, the late Ronald Dworkin also helped shape new dispensations in the Global South. In South Africa, in particular, his work has been fiercely debated in the context of one of the world’s most progressive constitutions. Despite Dworkin’s discomfort with that document’s...
What Fanon Said
A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to this notion, Lewis R. Gordon offers a portrait of Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon as an exemplar of “living thought”...
Planetary Politics
Human Rights, Terror, and Global Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2005
Global society has been analyzed in any number of ways: books dealing with its economic and cultural implications flood the market. But Planetary Politics highlights something unique. It explores globalization with an eye on the transformation of politics into a planetary enterprise. Unifying this...
Strangers to Nature
Animal Lives and Human Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Strangers to Nature challenges a reading public that has grown complacent with the standard framework of the animal ethics debate. Human influence on, and the control of, the natural world has greater consequences than ever, making the human impact on the lives of animals more evident. We cannot properly...
by Anita Allen, Drucilla Cornell, Ann Cudd
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2004
Over the past thirty years, western political philosophy has been enriched by a renewed interest in liberalism, and by the development of feminism. Although liberalism is one of the important historical roots of feminism, many contemporary feminist political philosophers reject liberal political theory....
The Imaginary Domain
Abortion, Pornography and Sexual Harrassment
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Law and Revolution in South Africa
uBuntu, Dignity, and the Struggle for Constitutional Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
The relation between law and revolution is one of the most pressing questions of our time. As one country after another has faced the challenge that comes with the revolutionary overthrow of past dictatorships, how one reconstructs a new government is a burning issue.
South Africa, after a...
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