Autonomy, Freedom and Rights : A Critique of Liberal Subjectivity Hardback
by Emilio Santoro
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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'.
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- Publication Date:01/05/2003
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:294 pages, X, 294 p.
- Publisher:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Publication Date:01/05/2003
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- ISBN:9781402014048
