Autonomy, Freedom and Rights: A Critique of Liberal Subjectivity

by Emilio Santoro

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048163307
• ISBN13: 9789048163304
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"