The Subject of Freedom : Kant, Levinas / Gabriela Basterra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Basterra, Gabriela, Author.

Series:

Commonalities.

Commonalities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Levinas, Emmanuel.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Autonomy (Psychology).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Introduction: The Subject of Freedom

1 Negation and Objectivity: Methodological Prelude

2 Unconditioned Subjectivity

3 Causality of Freedom

4 Affect of the Law

5 Autonomy, or Being Inspired

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8232-6688-5

0-8232-6517-X

0-8232-6518-8

OCLC:

907880644