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Autonomy, Freedom and Rights

A Critique of Liberal Subjectivity
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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 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".
Release date NZ
May 31st, 2003
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Illustrations
X, 294 p.
Pages
294
Dimensions
156x234x19
ISBN-13
9781402014048
Product ID
2438832

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