New Essays on the History of Autonomy

New Essays on the History of Autonomy
Author: Natalie Brender
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2004-06-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521828352

Kantian autonomy is often thought to be independent of time and place, but J.B. Schneewind in his landmark study, The Invention of Autonomy, has shown that there is much to be learned by setting Kant's moral philosophy in the context of the history of modern moral philosophy.The distinguished authors in the collection continue Schneewind's project by relating Kant's work to the historical context of his predecessors and to the empirical context of human agency.This will be a valuable resource for professionals and advanced students.

Personal Autonomy

Personal Autonomy
Author: James Stacey Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2005-01-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781139442718

Autonomy has recently become one of the central concepts in contemporary moral philosophy and has generated much debate over its nature and value. This 2005 volume brings together essays that address the theoretical foundations of the concept of autonomy, as well as essays that investigate the relationship between autonomy and moral responsibility, freedom, political philosophy, and medical ethics. Written by some of the most prominent philosophers working in these areas, this book represents research on the nature and value of autonomy that will be essential reading for a broad swathe of philosophers as well as many psychologists.

The Invention of Autonomy

The Invention of Autonomy
Author: Jerome B. Schneewind
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 652
Release: 1998
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521479387

This remarkable book is the most comprehensive study ever written of the history of moral philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its aim is to set Kant's still influential ethics in its historical context by showing in detail what the central questions in moral philosophy were for him and how he arrived at his own distinctive ethical views. The book is organised into four main sections, each exploring moral philosophy by discussing the work of many influential philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In an epilogue the author discusses Kant's view of his own historicity, and of the aims of moral philosophy. In its range, in its analyses of many philosophers not discussed elsewhere, and in revealing the subtle interweaving of religious and political thought with moral philosophy, this is an unprecedented account of the evolution of Kant's ethics.

Future Primitive

Future Primitive
Author: John Zerzan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1994
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This neo-Luddite sequel to Elements of Refusal includes Future Primitive, The Mass Psychology of Misery, Tonality and the Totality, The Catastrophe of Postmodernism, excerpts from The Nihilists Dictionary, and other essays, columns, and reviews. From the editor of Against Civilization and the confidant of alleged Unabomber Ted Kazcynski.

New Interdisciplinary Perspectives On and Beyond Autonomy

New Interdisciplinary Perspectives On and Beyond Autonomy
Author: Christopher Watkin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2022-12-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000811646

What does ‘autonomy’ mean today? Is the Enlightenment understanding of autonomy still relevant for contemporary challenges? How have the limits and possibilities of autonomy been transformed by recent developments in artificial intelligence and big data, political pressures, intersecting oppressions and the climate emergency? The challenges to autonomy today reach across society with unprecedented complexity, and in this book leading scholars from philosophy, economics, linguistics, literature and politics examine the role of autonomy in key areas of contemporary life, forcefully defending a range of different views about the nature and extent of resistance to autonomy today. These essays are essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the predicament and prospects of one of modernity’s foundational concepts and one of our most widely cherished values. Chapter 5.6 and 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

New Essays in American Jewish History

New Essays in American Jewish History
Author: Pamela Susan Nadell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Jews
ISBN: 9781602801486

"Commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the American Jewish Archives and the tenth anniversary of Gary P. Zola as its Director, New Essays in American Jewish History includes twenty-two new articles representing the best in modern American and Jewish scholarship. More than a celebration, New Essays serves as a scholarly benchmark in the growing field of American Jewish studies." --Amazon.com.

Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy

Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy
Author: J. B. Schneewind
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199563012

J.B. Schneewind presents a selection of his published essays on ethics, the history of ethics and moral psychology, together with a new piece offering an intellectual autobiography. The essays range across the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, with a particular focus on Kant and his relation to earlier thinkers.

Kant on Moral Autonomy

Kant on Moral Autonomy
Author: Oliver Sensen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107004861

This book explores the central importance Kant's concept of autonomy for contemporary moral thought and modern philosophy.

Philosophy, Politics, Autonomy

Philosophy, Politics, Autonomy
Author: Cornelius Castoriadis
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1991
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780195069631

These remarkable essays include Cornelius Castoriadis's latest contributions to philosophy, political and social theory, classical studies, development theory, cultural criticism, science, and ecology. Examining the "co-birth" in ancient Greece of philosophy and politics, Castoriadis shows how the Greeks' radical questioning of established ideas and institutions gave rise to the "project of autonomy." The "end of philosophy" proclaimed by Postmodernism would mean the end of this project. That end is now hastened by the lethal expansion of technoscience, the waning of political and social conflict, and the resignation of intellectuals who blindly defend Western culture as it is or who merely denounce or "deconstruct" it as it has been. Discussing and criticizing Plato, Aristotle, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Weber, Heidegger, and Habermas, the author of The Imaginary Institution of Society and Crossroads in the Labyrinth poses a radical challenge to our inherited philosophy.

Autonomy and Human Rights in Health Care

Autonomy and Human Rights in Health Care
Author: David N. Weisstub
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2007-12-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1402058411

This book offers a group of essays published in memory of David Thomasma, one of the leading humanists in the field of bioethics during the twentieth century. The authors represent many different countries and disciplines throughout the globe. The volume deals with the pressing issue of how to ground a universal bioethics in the context of the conflicted world of combative cultures and perspectives.