Freedom After the Critique of Foundations - Marx, Liberalism, Castoriadis and Agonistic Autonomy

Informationen zum Autor ALEXANDROS KIOUPKIOLIS Lecturer at the School of Political Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. His research interests are focused on the philosophy of freedom, theories of democracy and the critique of power. Klappentext An exploration of the contemporary re-conception of freedom after the critique of objective truths and ideas of an unchanging human nature, in which modern self-determination was grounded. This book focuses on the radical theorist Cornelius Castoriadis and the new paradigm of 'agonistic autonomy' is contrasted with Marxian and liberal approaches. Zusammenfassung An exploration of the contemporary re-conception of freedom after the critique of objective truths and ideas of an unchanging human nature! in which modern self-determination was grounded. This book focuses on the radical theorist Cornelius Castoriadis and the new paradigm of 'agonistic autonomy' is contrasted with Marxian and liberal approaches. Inhaltsverzeichnis Marx on a Tightrope: the Essence of Freedom and the Movement of Becoming Kantian Transcendence and Beyond Knowledge and Practice in Trouble: A Reasonable Way Out of Ontological Traps Liberal Detours and their Mishaps. Negative Liberty, I. Berlin and J.S. Mill Agonic Subjectivity and the Stirrings of the New The Social, the Imaginary and the Real Freedom, Agonism and Creative Praxis Post-critical Liberalism and Agonistic Freedom Post-foundational Reason and Sustainable Affirmation Contents: Past Agonies and Present Openings of Freedom Bibliography

List of contents

Marx on a Tightrope: the Essence of Freedom and the Movement of Becoming Kantian Transcendence and Beyond Knowledge and Practice in Trouble: A Reasonable Way Out of Ontological Traps Liberal Detours and their Mishaps. Negative Liberty, I. Berlin and J.S. Mill Agonic Subjectivity and the Stirrings of the New The Social, the Imaginary and the Real Freedom, Agonism and Creative Praxis Post-critical Liberalism and Agonistic Freedom Post-foundational Reason and Sustainable Affirmation Contents: Past Agonies and Present Openings of Freedom Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: A Kioupkiolis, A. Kioupkiolis, Alexandros Kioupkiolis, Kioupkiolis Alexandros
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2012
• EAN: 9780230279124
• ISBN: 978-0-230-27912-4
• No. of pages: 282
• Series: International Political Theory; International Political Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; B, History: specific events & topics, Democracy, Political Science, Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Political structures: democracy, Political History, Social Philosophy, World Politics, Social sciences—Philosophy, Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, autonomy;freedom;Karl Marx;liberty;Marx;nature