In the first decade of the twenty-first century autonomy has
become one of the major concerns of our social and political
existence. The right to autonomous life is now a political,
cultural and social call of both the individual and the group - a
rare conformity that points to the crucial importance of autonomy
in the agenda of critical thinking.
Though the notion of autonomy in the modern era was at first
applied in a political context, the term was quickly taken up in
the context of individual rational persons, their rights and
existences. In the wake of anti colonial movements, the term gained
new perspectives and meanings which would imply new rights and new
responsibilities. It became the emblem of group rights, in
particular minority rights. In time the idea of autonomy became not
only the standard of rights and responsibilities, but also an issue
of governmentality.
The present volume is a critical attempt to understand autonomy
from both historical and analytical perspectives. An international
group of scholars seek answers that go beyond the thinking of
Immanuel Kant or a simple hermeneutic reading of the principle of
autonomy. Autonomy, in this collective reading, emerges as deeply
rooted in social practices and contentious politics.
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