Autonomy, Freedom and Rights - A Critique of Liberal Subjectivity (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)

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'.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Law and Philosophy Library, 65
Release date:	May 2003
First published:	May 2003
Authors:	Emilio Santoro
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	294
Edition:	2003 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4020-1404-8
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Jurisprudence & philosophy of law
LSN:	1-4020-1404-X
Barcode:	9781402014048

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