Autonomy, Freedom and Rights : A Critique of Liberal Subjectivity /
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 indiv...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2003.
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| Series: | Law and philosophy library ;
65. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 293 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789401708234 (electronic bk.) 9401708231 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 1572-4395 ; |