Failed relations : oppression and relational autonomy / Rebekah Johnston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnston, Rebekah, author.

Series:

Studies in feminist philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autonomy (Philosophy).

Social interaction--Philosophy.

Social interaction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"This book is about personal autonomy and oppressive social contexts. Theories of personal autonomy identify the conditions that must be met in order for a person’s life, identity, desires, motivations, values, and actions truly to count as her own. To make one’s life one’s own, in the senses relevant to personal autonomy, however, is not to escape relation. Autonomy is intricately dependent on relations of many sorts. This book articulates significant ways in which oppressive social circumstances constrain the autonomy of marginalized agents by actively failing to provide and sustain the relations required for autonomy. While a lot of valuable work has been done to articulate the causally relational connections between oppression and autonomy, the focus of this book is to elaborate the undertheorized ways in which oppressive social circumstances are constitutively relevant to autonomy. It moves away from a focus on socialization and the internalization of oppressive norms and centers for analysis the implications for autonomy of living with those empowered to harass and engage in racial profiling, of experiences of epistemic injustice, of the political distribution of negative affect, and of practices of displacing the first personal, experiential perspectives of marginalized agents from the public sphere. These alternative considerations bring into focus the constitutively relational relevance of oppression to autonomy and provide an interpretive lens that can accommodate the claim that an agent may not internalize oppressive norms and values in ways that damage her, yet may nevertheless find her autonomy constrained by oppressive social relations"-- Oxford Academic.

'Failed Relations' examines the undertheorized ways in which oppressive social circumstances are constitutively relevant to autonomy.

Contents:

Living with who others get to be : self-determination and status

Self-governance, self-expressive activities, and communal competence

Self-governance, hermeneutical resources, and communicative needs

Authenticity and constitutively relational emotions

Self-authorization and social recognition.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Academic, viewed January 5, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Johnston, Rebekah. Failed relations

ISBN:

9780197791981

0197791980

9780197795781

0197795781

OCLC:

1514773485

Publisher Number:

CIPO000223414

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license