274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2001: Against Autonomy reassesses Jean-Francois Lyotard's contribution to philosophy and theory, and explores how his work challenges the privileged position of the principle of autonomy in contemporary liberal democratic thinking, as seen in such diverse thinkers as Rawls, Rorty and Fukuyama. Curtis argues that the political models autonomy legitimates are... Read more
Contents: Preface; Introduction; Models, descriptions, ideas; Autonomy 1: legitimation; Autonomy 2: recognition; Heteronomy: priority and responsibility; An-archy: principles and foundations; Action; or, linking and sharing; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Neal Curtis
’Curtis addresses important questions relating to dilemmas arising in the wake of the philosophical critiques of the foundational discourses of modernity. His reappraisal of Lyotard, with its implications for a post-modern politics, is an important contribution to the new corpus of work emerging on Lyotard.’ Couze Venn, The Nottingham Trent University, UK
