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  • Albie Sachs and Transformation in South Africa
    Albie Sachs / Drucilla Cornell / Karin van Marle
    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 new constitution of South Africa, and was subsequently appointed to the new Const...
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    95,39 €

  • Albie Sachs and Transformation in South Africa
    Albie Sachs / Drucilla Cornell / Karin van Marle
    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 new constitution of South Africa, and was subsequently appointed to the new Const...
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    268,54 €

  • Moral Images of Freedom
    Drucilla Cornell
    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 ...
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    94,76 €

  • Moral Images of Freedom
    Drucilla Cornell
    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 ...
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    36,58 €

  • Between Women and Generations
    Drucilla Cornell
    Drucilla Cornell interweaves the ethical and the political in this unique and profound narrative, focusing on women and dignity. ...
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    60,94 €

  • Defending Ideals
    Drucilla Cornell
    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. ...
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    85,80 €

  • Between Women and Generations
    Drucilla Cornell
    This book defies easy categorization but will be one of the most original, thoughtful, and genuinely interesting books published next year. Before the author’s mother died, she asked her daughter, Drucilla, to write a book ’that would bear witness to the dignity of her death [and one that] her bridge class would be able to understand.’ As if that wasn’t difficult enough, Drucil...
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    66,41 €

  • Between Women and Generations
    Drucilla Cornell
    Between Women and Generations: Legacies of Dignity is a great gift to the present. Drucilla Cornell is among the most courageous, probing, and far-sighted feminist thinkers. Now she has explored a memorable, extraordinary range of ideas and women’s lives, and returned to offer us all an ethics by which we can rightly, wisely live. We will be in her debt.--Catherine R. Stimpson,...
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    65,06 €

  • Just Cause
    Drucilla Cornell
    One of the distinguishing features of Drucilla Cornell’s work is its emphasis on the significance of ideals. The essays collected here examine how the ideals of freedom and equality associated with the democratic revolutions of the West have survived the challenges of twentieth century critiques. Cornell argues that, far from threatening these ideals, feminism, race theory and ...
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    54,50 €

  • Feminism and Pornography
    Drucilla Cornell
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    84,77 €

  • Beyond Accommodation
    Drucilla Cornell
    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. She challenges essentialist and naturalist accounts of feminine sexuality, argui...
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    54,26 €

  • Beyond Accommodation
    Drucilla Cornell
    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. She challenges essentialist and naturalist accounts of feminine sexuality, argui...
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    196,59 €

  • At the Heart of Freedom
    Drucilla Cornell
    How can women create a meaningful and joyous life for themselves? Is it enough to be equal with men? In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Drucilla Cornell argues that women should transcend the quest for equality and focus on what she shows is a far more radical project: achieving freedom. Cornell takes us on a highly original exploration of what it would mean for women p...
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    57,03 €

  • The Imaginary Domain
    Drucilla Cornell
    This book fundamentally alters the terrain of feminist legal and political philosophy, and does so in a prose style that is lucid and accessible. Cornell’s argument for legally encoding women’s equality is strikingly original and her arguments intellectually rich and ethically compelling. ...
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    89,21 €

  • Feminist Contentions
    Drucilla Cornell / Judith Butler / Seyla Benhabib
    First published in 1995. This volume presents a debate between four of the top feminist theorists in the United States. Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell and Nancy Fraser discuss some of the key questions facing feminist theory. Each articulates her own position in an initial essay, then responds to the others in a follow-up essay, making possible a conversation b...
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    89,79 €

  • Transformations
    Drucilla Cornell
    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. ...
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    82,70 €

  • The Philosophy of the Limit
    Drucilla Cornell
    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 is philosophically and hence to articulate more clearly its significance for law. Cornell’s ...
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    70,64 €