{"product_id":"autonomy-freedom-and-rights-a-critique-of-liberal-subjectivity-9781402014048","title":"Autonomy, Freedom and Rights: A Critique of Liberal Subjectivity","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Emilio Santoro\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Free Will \u0026amp; Determinism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAutonomy, 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'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45283617407127,"sku":"9781402014048","price":11017.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781402014048.webp?v=1769305416","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/autonomy-freedom-and-rights-a-critique-of-liberal-subjectivity-9781402014048","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}