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Autonomy, Freedom and Rights

A Critique of Liberal Subjectivity

Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)

Autonomy, viewed as a subject's autonomous designing of her own distinctive 'individuality', is not a constitutive problem for liberal theory. Since its earliest formulations, liberalism has taken it for granted that protecting rights is a sufficient guarantee for the primacy of individual subjectivity. The most dangerous legacy of the 'hierarchical-dualist' representation of the subject is the primacy given to reason in defining an individual's identity. For Santoro freedom is not a fixed measure. It is not the container of powers and rights defining an individual's role and identity. It is rather the outcome of a process whereby individuals continuously re-define the shape of their individuality. Freedom is everything that each of us manages to be in his or her active and uncertain opposition to external 'pressures'. weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-1-4020-1404-8 / 978-1402014048 / 9781402014048

Verlag: Springer Netherland

Erscheinungsdatum: 31.05.2003

Seiten: 294

Auflage: 1

Zielgruppe: Research

Autor(en): Emilio Santoro

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