The Subject of Freedom: Kant, Levinas

by Gabriela Basterra

Book Overview

Is freedom our most essential belonging, the intimate source of self-mastery, an inalienable right? Or is it something foreign, an other that constitutes subjectivity, a challenge to our notion of autonomy? To Basterra, the subjectivity we call free embodies a relationship with an irreducible otherness that at once exceeds it and animates its core.

Tracing Kant's concept of freedom from the Critique of Pure Reason to his practical works,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823265153
• ISBN13: 9780823265152
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"