New Interdisciplinary Perspectives On and Beyond Autonomy (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Watkin, Christopher; Davis, Oliver

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

To what extent is autonomy under threat today and how should these threats to autonomy be analysed? The essays in this book range over economics, politics, technology, philosophy, feminism and literature to assess the present state and future prospects of one of modernity's foundational concepts and one of our most cherished values.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000811629
• Artikelnr.: 66768140

Autorenporträt

Christopher Watkin is Australian Research Council Future Fellow in European Languages at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His recent books include French Philosophy Today (2016), Michel Serres: Figures of Thought (2020) and Biblical Critical Theory (2022). You can find him on the web at christopherwatkin.com, and on Twitter @DrChrisWatkin. Oliver Davis is Professor of French Studies at Warwick University, UK. He is the author of Jacques Rancière (2010), editor of Rancière Now (2013) and co-author, with Tim Dean, of Hatred of Sex (2022), among other works. He serves as Executive Editor of Modern & Contemporary France. He is currently researching the political stewardship of psychedelics.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors

Christopher Watkin, Introduction: 'The Ends of Autonomy'

Part I: Autonomy, Philosophy and Politics

1. Nick Hewlett, 'Karl Marx and the concept of freedom'

2. Peter Hallward, 'A law unto ourselves: reclaiming autonomy as mass sovereignty'

3. Taylor Lau, 'Against the economic view of time: the claim to free time'

Part II: Autonomy, Technology and Pharmacology

4. Tim Christiaens, 'Convivial autonomy in platform capitalism'

5. Oliver Davis, 'Autonomy and autoheteronomy in psychedelically assisted psychotherapy'

6. Simon D. Angus, 'How liberating is liberation technology?'

Part III: Autonomy, Climate and Capacity

7. Ash K. Stokoe, 'Crip autonomy and external limitations: the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic and governmental pandemic management measures on disabled people in the United Kingdom'

8. Graham Wood, 'Sustainable freedom'

9. Dan Taylor, 'Climate anxiety, fatalism and the capacity to act'

Part IV: Autonomy, Language and Power

10. Jeremy Ahearne, 'World Lingua Franca Regimes and Real Freedoms'

11. Ali Alizadeh, 'Freedom to Live: Robespierre, Marx and Social Liberty'

12. Felicity Chaplin, '"Liberty leading the people"? Dress liberty in Post-#MeToo France'



Index