Moral Images of Freedom resurrects the Kantian project of affirmative political philosophy and traces its oftforgotten influences found in thinkers like Martin Heidegger Ernst Cassirer Frantz Fanon and Walter Benjamin. As a whole the book attempts to respond to nihilistic claims about the empty purpose of critical theory in a world so utterly captured by violence in all of its worst forms economic social political and cultural. Instead this book draws together a sweeping thread of hope in the varied symbolic forms of freedom persistent throughout the work of a broader range of critical theorists and addresses the burning challenge for such work to respond seriously to the need for a decolonization of critical theory itself and a sustained commitment to the possible future of socialism.