The politics of persons : individual autonomy and socio-historical selves /
It is both an ideal and an assumption of traditional conceptions of justice for liberal democracies that citizens are autonomous, self-governing persons. Yet standard accounts of the self and of self-government at work in such theories are hotly disputed and often roundly criticized in most of their...
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Cambridge :
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2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- pt. 1. Selves. The social concept of self: critical taxonomy
- The post-modern subject
- The narrative self
- Memory, agency, and the self
- pt. 2. Autonomy. Political persons
- The historical concept of autonomy
- Relational autonomy
- The dynamics of social identities
- pt. 3. Justice. Justice over time: history, public reason, and political legitimacy
- Conclusion.
