E-Book, Englisch, Band 65, 294 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: Law and Philosophy Library
Santoro Autonomy, Freedom and Rights
2003
ISBN: 978-94-017-0823-4
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
A Critique of Liberal Subjectivity
E-Book, Englisch, Band 65, 294 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: Law and Philosophy Library
ISBN: 978-94-017-0823-4
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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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1. Individual Autonomy and Freedom.- 2. A Genealogical Approach.- 3. Neo-Contractarianism and the Double Order of Desires.- Conclusion.- References.
