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The book addresses the legal and political programme for the recognition of sexual difference. Cornell shows how affirming feminine sexual difference and advocating a programme of equivalent rights demands that we rethink the traditional conception of the public/private divide, particularly as this distinction turns on the differentation between public reason and private passion.
The first collection of essays directed towards jurisprudence with
a Hegelian theme. The editors are committed to the idea that Hegel
is the future source of great energy and insight within the legal
academy.
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
What is liberalism in the post-9/11 world? What do the ideals of
civilization and civility mean during the Bush administration's
campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq? Is liberalism still important?
Cornell examines the most important scholars of today and their
approach to these questions. She contrasts Amartya Sen's
capabilities approach with that of Martha Nussbaum, and examines
Adorno's salvaging the idea of progress. She critiques Richard
Falk's justification of the bombing of Afghanistan, which has now
led to the slippery slope that Falk feared and could not defend
against. Cornell also examines the ideal of civility as defined by
Etienne Balibar and Thomas Nagel, with important implications for
the world community.
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 Constitutional
Court of South Africa. Therefore, the question of what it means to
make the transition from a freedom fighter to a participant in a
revolutionary government is not abstract, in Hegel's sense of the
word, it is an actual journey that Albie Sachs undertook. The
essays in this book raise the complex question of what it actually
means to make this transition without selling out to the demands of
realism. In addition, the preface written by Emeritus Justice Albie
Sachs and his interview with Drucilla Cornell and Karin van Marle,
further address key questions about revolution in the twentieth-
and twenty-first centuries: from armed struggle to the organization
of a nation state committed to ethical transformation in the name
of justice. Albie Sachs and transformation in South Africa: from
revolutionary activist to constitutional court judge illuminates
the theoretical and practical experiences of revolution and its
political aftermath. With first-hand accounts alongside academic
interrogation, this unique book will intrigue anyone interested in
the intersection of Law and Politics.
The purpose of this volume is to rethink the questions posed by Derrida's writings and his unique philosophical positioning, without reference to the catch phrases that have supposedly summed up deconstruction.
Hegel and Legal Theory brings together a series of essays and
inquiries into Hegel's philosophy as it applies to legal questions.
The essays concentrate on the significance of legal rights to the
development of personality, the status of contract and property in
Hegel's philosophy and various aspects of constitutional law.
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 Constitutional
Court of South Africa. Therefore, the question of what it means to
make the transition from a freedom fighter to a participant in a
revolutionary government is not abstract, in Hegel's sense of the
word, it is an actual journey that Albie Sachs undertook. The
essays in this book raise the complex question of what it actually
means to make this transition without selling out to the demands of
realism. In addition, the preface written by Emeritus Justice Albie
Sachs and his interview with Drucilla Cornell and Karin van Marle,
further address key questions about revolution in the twentieth-
and twenty-first centuries: from armed struggle to the organization
of a nation state committed to ethical transformation in the name
of justice. Albie Sachs and transformation in South Africa: from
revolutionary activist to constitutional court judge illuminates
the theoretical and practical experiences of revolution and its
political aftermath. With first-hand accounts alongside academic
interrogation, this unique book will intrigue anyone interested in
the intersection of Law and Politics.
Examines the relationship of deconstruction to questions of ethics, justice and legal interpretation. Cornell argues that renaming deconstruction `the philosophy of the limit' will enable us to be more precise about its meaning.
At a time when the political left have watched the apparent decline of socialism, and with it the cynical rejection of political hope, the question of how to rethink political transformation has become a pressing question. In Transformations Drucilla Cornell offers us a unique conception of recollective imagination which allows us to preserve and re-articulate the tradition of critical social theory. Cornell argues that psychoanalysis must play a role in social theory because we need to understand the connection between our constitution as gendered subjects and social, political and legal transformation. We cannot avoid the question of how the subject is constituted if we are to provide a new conception of radical change. A remarkable work combining the insights of recent feminist and critical theory with the concerns for social change.
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