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Details for article 19 of 190 found articles
| Title: |
Beyond liberal Utopia: freedom as the problem of modernity |
| Author: |
Pfau, Thomas |
| Appeared in: |
European romantic review |
| Paging: | Volume 19 (2008) nr. 2 pages 83-103 |
| Year: |
2008-04 |
| Contents: |
This essay critiques the concept of the “punctual” or autonomous self that served as the foundation of classical liberalism and its moral philosophy, beginning in the work of A. Smith, T. Paine, and I. Kant. Grounded in the language of “rights,” personal liberty, and rational self-possession, the modern individual is paradoxically characterized as a unique agent and as formally equivalent to all other such beings. Furthermore, its political and epistemological claims rest on unexamined assumptions about freedom that would be severely challenged by the pessimistic turn of much nineteenth-century literary and philosophical narrative. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
Details for article 19 of 190 found articles
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