Autonomy, Freedom and Rights : A Critique of Liberal Subjectivity (Law and Philosophy Library)

Santoro, Emilio

Kluwer Academic Pub（2003/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 304 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781402014048
• DDC分類 123.5

Full Description

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'.

Contents

1. Individual Autonomy and Freedom.- 2. A Genealogical Approach.- 3. Neo-Contractarianism and the Double Order of Desires.- Conclusion.- References.