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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Claire Elaine Rasmussen |
ISBN: | 9780816669561 0816669562 9780816669578 0816669570 |
OCLC Number: | 756305141 |
Notes: | Erscheint: September 2011. |
Description: | XVI, 210 Seiten : Illustrationen |
Contents: | ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Conceiving a Human Being1. The Choice of Law: Autonomy between Norm and Creation2. Mature Subjects: Physical Education and the Political Child3. Intoxicated Citizens: America's Drug War and the Body Politic4. Man Is a Political Animal: Self-Discipline and Its Beastly Other5. Fit to Be Tied: Exercise Fads and Our Addiction to AutonomyConclusion: Freedom and Self-GovernanceNotesBibliographyIndex |
Responsibility: | Claire E. Rasmussen. |
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"This captivating book is about the paradox of freedom that we moderns experience as the compulsion to autonomy. Whether we are becoming adolescents, addicts, vegans, or athletes we subject ourselves to become independent so that we can experience freedom. This drive to experience freedom divides those who become autonomous (mature and respectable) and those who must be governed. The book is an impressive intervention on the paradox of freedom that is at once a space of possibility and oppression. Claire E. Rasmussen shows a behind-the-scenes glimpse of intriguing and inspiring subjectivities through that space." -Engin Isin, The Open University "This book is a provocative, compelling, and wide-ranging analysis of the self-contained subject. Rasmussen both historicizes and critiques the concept of the sovereign self." -Kennan Ferguson, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Read more...


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