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Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism:  New Essays
ed. John Christman & Joel Anderson
(New York:  Cambridge UP, 2005)


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Book review in Notre Dame Philosophical Review (September 2005):
       http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=3921



Table of Contents

1 "Introduction," by John Christman and Joel Anderson (pp. 1-25)
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Part I - The Self: Conceptions of the Autonomous Self

2 "Decentralizing Autonomy: Five Faces of Selfhood," by Diana Tietjens Meyers (pp. 27-55)
3 "The Self as Narrator," by  J. David Velleman (pp. 56-76)
4 "Autonomy and Self-Identity," by  Marina A. L. Oshana (pp. 77-97)

Part II - The Interpersonal: Personal Authority and Interpersonal Recognition


5 "Taking Ownership: Authority and Voice in Autonomous Agency," by Paul Benson (pp. 101-126)
6 "Autonomy, Vulnerability, Recognition, and Justice," by Joel Anderson and Axel Honneth (pp. 127-149)
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7 "Autonomy and Male Dominance," by Marilyn Friedman (pp. 150-173)

Part III -  The Social: Public Policy and Liberal Principles

8 "Autonomy, Domination, and the Republican Challenge to Liberalism," by Richard Dagger (pp. 177-203)
9 "Liberal Autonomy and Consumer Sovereignty," by Joseph Heath (pp. 204-225)
10 "Political Liberty: Integrating Five Conceptions of Autonomy," by Rainer Forst (pp. 226-242)

Part IV - The Political: Liberalism, Legitimacy, and Public Reason
11 "Liberalism without Agreement: Political Autonomy and Agonistic Citizenship," by Bert van den Brink (pp. 245-271)
12 "The Place of Autonomy within Liberalism," by Gerald F. Gaus (pp. 272-306)
13 "Moral Autonomy and Personal Autonomy," by Jeremy Waldron (pp. 307-229)
14 "Autonomy, Self-Knowledge, and Liberal Legitimacy," by John Christman (pp. 330-357)

Bibliography 359
Index 375


From the Preface:

"The initial idea for this volume was to prepare an update of The Inner Citadel, the collection of essays on the concept of autonomy that John Christman had put together in 1989. Given the spate of terrific work since then, a new anthology seemed in order. But we also saw that discussions of the concept of autonomy needed to mesh more fully with the growing body of literature on political liberalism, where there were strikingly similar lines of critique and rebuttal. Thus arose the idea for a collection of essays that would both update discussions of autonomy and connect them to debates over the foundations of liberalism.

The decision to solicit new essays allowed us to tailor our invitations to authors in a way that framed these issues from the outset, and we are particularly pleased with the way the authors took up and further developed those issues. The chapters were all written independently, but during the process of revising their contributions, the authors had access to drafts of each other’s chapters, which allowed for interesting crosspollenation and a more cohesive overall volume. In addition, several of the authors had anearlier opportunity to exchange their views at symposia on autonomy in St. Louis in 1997 and 1999."