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The Contested History of Autonomy - Interpreting European Modernity (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,941
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The Contested History of Autonomy - Interpreting European Modernity (Hardcover): Gerard Rosich

The Contested History of Autonomy - Interpreting European Modernity (Hardcover)

Gerard Rosich

Series: Europe's Legacy in the Modern World

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The Contested History of Autonomy examines the concept of autonomy in modern times. It presents the history of modernity as constituted by the tension between sovereignty and autonomy and offers a critical interpretation of European modernity from a global perspective. The book shows, in contrast to the standard view of its invention, that autonomy (re)emerged as a defining quality of modernity in early modern Europe. Gerard Rosich looks at how the concept is first used politically, in opposition to the rival concept of sovereignty, as an attribute of a collective-self in struggle against imperial domination. Subsequently the book presents a range of historical developments as significant events in the history of imperialism which are connected at once with the consolidation of the concept of sovereignty and with a western view of modernity. Additionally, the book provides an interpretation of the history of globalization based on this connection. Rosich discusses the conceptual shortcomings and historical inadequacy of the traditional western view of modernity against the background of recent breakthroughs in world history. In doing so, it reconstructs an alternative interpretation of modernity associated with the history of autonomy as it appeared in early modern Europe, before looking to the present and the ongoing tension between 'sovereignty' and 'autonomy' that exists. This is a groundbreaking study that will be of immense value to scholars researching modern Europe and its relationship with the World.

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Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Europe's Legacy in the Modern World
Release date: October 2018
Authors: Gerard Rosich
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 978-1-350-04864-5
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN: 1-350-04864-X
Barcode: 9781350048645

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