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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Christman, John Philip
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.