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'.
| ISBN: | 9789048163304 |
| Publication date: | 28th October 2010 |
| Author: | Emilio Santoro |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer Netherlands |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 294 pages |
| Series: | Law and Philosophy Library |
| Genres: |
Methods, theory and philosophy of law Political science and theory Philosophy |
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.
Autonomy, Freedom and Rights features in the following genres: Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Political science and theory, Philosophy
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Autonomy, Freedom and Rights was written by Emilio Santoro and published by Springer an imprint of Springer Netherlands
Autonomy, Freedom and Rights has 294 pages
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