| Autonomy, Freedom and Rights: A Critique of Liberal Subjectivity 2003 Edition Contributor(s): Santoro, Emilio (Author) |
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ISBN: 140201404X ISBN-13: 9781402014048 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2003 Annotation: 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'. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Free Will & Determinism - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Law | Legal History |
| Dewey: 123.5 |
| LCCN: 2003052001 |
| Series: Law and Philosophy Library |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 7.06" W x 9.2" (1.35 lbs) 294 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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'. |