Allison Weir (Faculty Associate, Centre for Ethics, Faculty Associa

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Decolonizing Freedom

Beschreibung

Freedom is celebrated as the definitive ideal of modern western civilization. Yet in western thought and practice, freedom has been defined through opposition to the unfreedom of most of the world's people. Allison Weir draws on Indigenous political theories and practices of decolonization in dialogue with western theories, to reconstruct a tradition of relational freedom as a distinctive political conception of freedom: a radically democratic mode of engagement and participation in social and political relations with an infinite range of strange and diverse beings perceived as free agents in interdependent relations in a shared world.

Autor

Allison Weir is a Canadian social and political philosopher, a Faculty Associate in the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto, and a Fellow of the Centre for Humanities and Social Change at the Humboldt University in Berlin. She co-founded the Institute for Social Justice in Sydney, Australia, where she was Research Professor and Director of the Doctoral Program in Social Political Thought, and was previously Associate Professor of Philosophy and Gender Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is the author of Identities and Freedom and Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of Identity.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Feminist Philosophy
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9780197507957
• ISBN-10: 0197507956
• Artikelnr.: 69719763