Drucilla Cornell, was an American philosopher and feminist theorist, whose work has been influential in political and legal philosophy, ethics, deconstruction, critical theory, and feminism.
12 Facts About Drucilla Cornell
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Drucilla Cornell taught for many years on the law faculties of the University of Pennsylvania and of Cardozo Law School of Yeshiva University.
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Drucilla Cornell's first play, produced in 1989, was a dramatic adaptation of Finnegans Wake which continues to be performed on Bloomsday.
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Drucilla Cornell has produced a documentary film on the African humanist ethic of uBuntu, entitled uBuntu Hokae.
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Drucilla Cornell coined the phrase the imaginary domain in the book by the same name in 1995.
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Drucilla Cornell argued that it was possible to defend a practical ideal of the imaginary domain without having to resolve these particular debates, since as a moral or legal right, it was the person who was given the imagined space to recreate and re-symbolize all of his or her identifications.
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From 2008 to the end of 2009, Professor Drucilla Cornell held the National Research Foundation Chair in Customary Law, Indigenous Values, and the Dignity Jurisprudence at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
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Drucilla Cornell founded the uBuntu project in 2003, and continues to be the co-director of that project with Chuma Himonga.
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Drucilla Cornell is a co-director of the uBuntu Township Project, with Madoda Sigonyela.
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Professor Drucilla Cornell is an advocate and researcher for Khulamani, an on the ground organisation of people who suffered under apartheid and are now struggling to find new and creative ways to counter the devastation that remains because of the system of racialized capitalism.
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Drucilla Cornell wrote about those years in a 2020 publication, There Is Power in a Union: How I Became a Labor Activist.
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Drucilla Cornell is survived by her daughter, Sarita Cornell, her former husband, Gregory DeFreitas, both of New York City, her sister Jill Gwaltney and brother Brad Cornell, both of Southern California.