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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
INTRODUCTION - The Struggle for Redemptive Imagination
CHAPTER ONE - Kantian Beginnings to the Legacy of Critical Theory: The Harmonious Play of Freedom
Schiller’s Insight into Aesthetic Play
Kant on the Beautiful
Kant on the Sublime
The Hypothetical Imagination
Kant’s Ambivalence on the Imagination
Notes
CHAPTER TWO - Dignity in Dasein: Between Thrownness and Hospitality
Shepherding Being against Our Thrownness
Heeding the Call of Hospitality
Notes
CHAPTER THREE - Symbolic Form as Other: Ethical Humanism and the Vivifying Power of Language
Human Beings as Symbolic Creatures
Applicability, Versatility, and Vivification
Cassirerian Critique of the Kantian Schema
Inevitable Plurality of Symbolic Forms
Imaginative Projective and Symbolic Form
The “I” Standpoint
How Is Objectivity Possible?
Cassirer and Progress
The Davos Debate
Levinas’s Engagement with Cassirer
Notes
CHAPTER FOUR - Decolonizing Critical Theory: The Challenge of Black Existentialism
Black Skin, White Masks
Notes
CHAPTER FIVE - Redemption in the Midst of Phantasmagoria: Dispelling the Fate of Socialism
Notes
CONCLUSION - Heeding Piedade’s Song: Toward a Transnational Feminist Solidarity
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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