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The Subject of Freedom: Kant, Levinas

By Gabriela Basterra

Book information

Publisher
Fordham University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
0823265145, 978-0-8232-6514-5, 9780823265183, 0823265188, 978-0-8232-6515-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1561432 bytes)
Series
Commonalities
Edition
1st
Pages
208\209
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
-- 1724-1804. POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & TheoryAutonomy (Psychology) LevinasEmmanuel.Emmanuel. KantEmmanuel. LaevinasImmanuel

Description

Is freedom our most essential belonging, the intimate source of self-mastery, an inalienable right? Or is it something foreign, an other that constitutes subjectivity, a challenge to our notion of autonomy? To Basterra, the subjectivity we call free embodies a relationship with an irreducible otherness that at once exceeds it and animates its core. Tracing Kant's concept of freedom from the Critique of Pure Reason to his practical works, Basterra elaborates his most revolutionary insights by setting them in dialogue with Levinas's Otherwise than Being. Levinas's text, she argues, offers a deep critique of Kant that follows the impulse of his thinking to its most promising consequences. The complex concepts of freedom, autonomy, and subjectivity that emerge from this dialogue have the potential to energize today's ethical and political thinking.

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