Transformations: Recollective Imagination and Sexual Difference

Cornell, Drucilla

ISBN 10: 0415907470 / ISBN 13: 9780415907477

Editore: Routledge, Great Britain, 1993

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Book has light edge wear. Light wear at head and tail of spine. Pageblock is foxed. Marks on FEP where pencil has been rubbed out; contents are otherwise clean, bright and tight. J. Codice articolo 260978

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Titolo: Transformations: Recollective Imagination ...

Casa editrice: Routledge, Great Britain

Data di pubblicazione: 1993

Legatura: paperback

Condizione: Good

Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket

Edizione: First Edition.

Tipologia articolo: Used

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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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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 a 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. Cornell argues that we cannot escape confronting the question of how the subject is constituted if we are to provide a new conception of transformative possibility and radical change. According to Cornell, feminism demands conception of the subject as crucial to any radical politics and even to legal reform. As a result, traditional conceptions of the public private divide must be challenged. Cornell points out, for example, that we cannot even understand racism and the connection between race and gender, let alone politically fight against racism, unless we develop a view of the work of culture that allows us to grapple with such issues. This work combines the insights of recent feminist and critical theory with the concerns for social change.