Kant and the Limits of Autonomy

Susan Meld Shell

ISBN 10: 0674033337 / ISBN 13: 9780674033337

Verlag: Harvard University Press Apr 2009, 2009

Beschreibung

Neuware - Autonomy for Kant is not just a synonym for the capacity to choose, whether simple or deliberative. It is what the word implies: the imposition of a law on one's own authority and out of one's own rational resources. This title explores the limits of Kantian autonomy - both the force of its claims and the complications to which they give rise.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780674033337

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Kant and the Limits of Autonomy
• Verlag: Harvard University Press Apr 2009
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0674033337
• ISBN-13: 9780674033337
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 244B x 166 H x 39 T Millimeter Breite: 244 mm, Höhe: 166 mm, Tiefe: 39 mm
• Gewicht: 870 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

Autonomy for Kant is not just a synonym for the capacity to choose, whether simple or deliberative. It is what the word literally implies: the imposition of a law on one’s own authority and out of one’s own rational resources. In Kant and the Limits of Autonomy, Shell explores the limits of Kantian autonomy―both the force of its claims and the complications to which they give rise. Through a careful examination of major and minor works, Shell argues for the importance of attending to the difficulty inherent in autonomy and to the related resistance that in Kant’s view autonomy necessarily provokes in us. Such attention yields new access to Kant’s famous, and famously puzzling, Groundlaying of the Metaphysics of Morals. It also provides for a richer and more unified account of Kant’s later political and moral works; and it highlights the pertinence of some significant but neglected early writings, including the recently published Lectures on Anthropology.

Kant and the Limits of Autonomy is both a rigorous, philosophically and historically informed study of Kantian autonomy and an extended meditation on the foundation and limits of modern liberalism.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Susan Meld Shell is Professor of Political Science, Boston College.