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