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Autonomy, Freedom and Rights: A Critique of Liberal Subjectivity

Autonomy, Freedom and Rights: A Critique of Liberal Subjectivity

Santoro, Emilio

Hardcover

Series: Law and Philosophy Library, Book 65

PhilosophyGeneral Law

ISBN10: 140201404X
ISBN13: 9781402014048
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: May 31 2003
Pages: 294
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.85 Width: 7.06 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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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