Drucilla Cornell was Professor Emerita of Political Science, Comparative Literature, and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University; Professor Extraordinaire at the University of Pretoria, South Africa; and a visiting professor at Birkbeck College, University of London. With a background in philosophy, law, and grassroots mobilization, she played a central role in the organization of the memorable conferences on deconstruction and justice at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 1989, 1990, and 1993. She was the author of The Philosophy of the Limit (1992), Feminism and Pornography (2000), and Law and Revolution in South Africa: uBuntu, Dignity, and the Struggle for Constitutional Transformation (2014). She has also coedited several books: Feminism as Critique: On the Politics of Gender (1987), with Seyla Benhabib; and Hegel and Legal Theory (1991) and Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice (1992), with David Gray Carlson and Michel Rosenfeld. She was part of a philosophical exchange with Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler, and Nancy Fraser entitled Feminist Contentions (1995). In addition to her academic work, she wrote four produced plays.
"This is an ambitious, innovative project that seeks to bring
together popular culture studies with political philosophy.
Throughout there are many sparkling insights and provocative
discussions that ramify far beyond Eastwood's work and invite a
broader discussion of the ways in which gender might be thought in
relation to democracy theory, law, and ethicality."-----Sara
Murphy, New York University
An exciting read, in which Eastwood's work and his personal
struggle come alive for us together with a rich layer of conceptual
analysis that is equally vivid.-----Jessica Benjamin, author of
Like Subjects, Love Objects: Essays on Recognition and Sexual
Difference
An extremely important work, not mainly as a book of film criticism
or cinematographic biography, but as a work of social commentary
and ethical philosophy.-----Karin van Marle, University of
Pretoria
Drucilla Cornell is our leading ethical feminist philosopher who
lays bare the moral core of our leading masculinist film director
-- the genius named Clint Eastwood. To put it bluntly, this book is
the best treatment we have of Eastwood's magisterial filmic
corpus!-----Cornel West, Princeton University
Drucilla Cornell's powers of cultural analysis and critique are in
rare form in this lucidly written and extraordinarily rich
philosophical portrait of one of Hollywood's most brilliant and
often controversial icon of masculinity. The work inspires
reflection not only on the meaning of masculinity in the world of
cinematic fantasy, a world with a troubled history of female and
racial subordination premised both on its presence in American
society and its cultivation and fomentation as imagined by
directorial license, but also on struggles for humanistic portraits
of human possibility in a clearly less than ideal world. It's a
triumph in new critical theory and philosophical analysis of
contemporary culture. Bravo!-----Lewis Ricardo Gordon, Temple
University
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