Autonomy, Freedom and Rights: A Critique of Liberal Subjectivity (Law and Philosophy Library, Band 65) - Softcover

Santoro, Emilio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9048163307 ISBN 13: 9789048163304

Verlag: Springer, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

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'.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9048163307
• ISBN 13: 9789048163304
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 308
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