New interdisciplinary perspectives on and beyond autonomy / edited by Christopher Watkin and Oliver Davis.
"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, intersec...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2023.
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| Series: | Warwick series in the humanities.
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| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 220 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781003331780 1003331785 9781000811629 100081162X 9781000811643 1000811646 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 19, 2023) |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Christopher Watkin is Australian Research Council Future Fellow in European Languages at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His recent books include French Philosophy Today (2016), Michel Serres: Figures of Thought (2020) and Biblical Critical Theory (2022). You can find him on the web at christopherwatkin.com, and on Twitter @DrChrisWatkin. Oliver Davis is Professor of French Studies at Warwick University, UK. He is the author of Jacques Rancir̀ˆe (2010), editor of Rancir̀ˆe Now (2013) and co-author, with Tim Dean, of Hatred of Sex (2022), among other works. He serves as Executive Editor of Modern & Contemporary France. He is currently researching the political stewardship of psychedelics. |