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Autonomy, Freedom and Rights

A Critique of Liberal Subjectivity

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  • © 2003

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Authors:
  1. Emilio Santoro

    1. Department of History and Theory of Law, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

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Part of the book series: Law and Philosophy Library (LAPS, volume 65)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Emilio Santoro
    Pages 1-3

  3. Individual Autonomy and Freedom

    • Emilio Santoro
    Pages 4-66

  4. A Genealogical Approach

    • Emilio Santoro
    Pages 67-166

  5. Neo-Contractarianism and the Double Order of Desires

    • Emilio Santoro
    Pages 167-253

  6. Conclusion

    • Emilio Santoro
    Pages 254-265

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 266-293
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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'.

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  • Department of History and Theory of Law, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Emilio Santoro

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