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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Santoro, Emilio
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2003.
Series:Law and philosophy library ; 65.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • From the Contents: Introduction
  • 1. Individual Autonomy and Freedom
  • 2. A Genealogical Approach
  • 3. Neo-Contractarianism and the Double Order of Desires
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index.