Autonomy, Freedom and Rights: A Critique of Liberal Subjectivity - Couverture rigide

Santoro, Emilio

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 140201404X ISBN 13 : 9781402014048

Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003

Synopsis

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'.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

For the author 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'.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 140201404X
• ISBN 13: 9781402014048
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
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