Failed relations : oppression and relational autonomy /
'Failed Relations' examines the undertheorized ways in which oppressive social circumstances are constitutively relevant to autonomy.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Studies in feminist philosophy.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 'Failed Relations' examines the undertheorized ways in which oppressive social circumstances are constitutively relevant to autonomy. |
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| Abstract: | "This book is about personal autonomy and oppressive social contexts. Theories of personal autonomy identify the conditions that must be met in order for a person's life, identity, desires, motivations, values, and actions truly to count as her own. To make one's life one's own, in the senses relevant to personal autonomy, however, is not to escape relation. Autonomy is intricately dependent on relations of many sorts. This book articulates significant ways in which oppressive social circumstances constrain the autonomy of marginalized agents by actively failing to provide and sustain the relations required for autonomy. While a lot of valuable work has been done to articulate the causally relational connections between oppression and autonomy, the focus of this book is to elaborate the undertheorized ways in which oppressive social circumstances are constitutively relevant to autonomy. It moves away from a focus on socialization and the internalization of oppressive norms and centers for analysis the implications for autonomy of living with those empowered to harass and engage in racial profiling, of experiences of epistemic injustice, of the political distribution of negative affect, and of practices of displacing the first personal, experiential perspectives of marginalized agents from the public sphere. These alternative considerations bring into focus the constitutively relational relevance of oppression to autonomy and provide an interpretive lens that can accommodate the claim that an agent may not internalize oppressive norms and values in ways that damage her, yet may nevertheless find her autonomy constrained by oppressive social relations"-- Oxford Academic. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197791981 0197791980 9780197795781 0197795781 |