Imagining Law

Renée J. Heberle is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toledo and the editor of Feminist Interpretations of Theodor Adorno. Benjamin Pryor is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Codirector of the Program in Law and Social Thought at the University of Toledo.

"This book combines exegesis and critical assessment of a major thinker. Cornell is a prolific writer responding to major—and dead—philosophers, as well as many contemporary voices. Her interdisciplinary writing on ideals such as 'justice' and 'dignity' is distinguished from other 'postmodern' writings because of her insistence in reconstructing liberalism in the wake of post-structuralism. The contributors force Cornell, for the first time, to account for aspects of her work, including her disinterestedness in Nietzsche and Foucault and her liberal reading of Levinas." — Marinos Diamantides, author of Levinas, Law, Politics"The contributors' essays offer very insightful and clarifying analyses of some of the most important aspects of Drucilla Cornell's work and point to the breadth and depth of her influence in many fields. The book also gives a helpful overview of Cornell's body of theoretical work as a whole. The contributors impressively situate Cornell's writing in terms of its relation to the various philosophers that she is influenced by and in theoretical conversation with, in particular Kant, Levinas, and Heidegger." — Christine Keating, The Ohio State University

• IntroductionRenée J. Heberle1. Transcendence and Finitude in Drucilla Cornell’s Philosophy of the LimitRoger Berkowitz 2. Radical Feminist LiberalismAdam Thurschwell3. "The Capabilities Approach," "The Imaginary Domain," and "Asymmetrical Reciprocity": Feminist Perspectives on Equality and JusticeKarin Van Marle4. Sexuate Being: Foundations for a Feminist Legal Philosophy?J. M. Bernstein5. "Faute de Mieux": Defending IdealsBenjamin Pryor6. Imagining Loss: Traces of DignityCarolin Emcke7. Mourning and Metonymy: Bearing Witness between Women and GenerationsSara Murphy8. Progress and EvilMartin J. Beck Matuštík 9. Antiracism, Multiculturalism, and the Ethics of IdentificationDrucilla Cornell and Sara Murphy10. Affordance, or Vulnerable Freedom: A Response to Cornell and Murphy’s "Antiracism, Multiculturalism, and the Ethics of Identification"Pheng Cheah11. Drucilla Cornell, Identity, and the Evolution of PoliticsElizabeth Grosz12. Thinking the Future, Imagining OtherwiseDrucilla CornellList of ContributorsIndex