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Title: AUTONOMY GAPS
JOEL ANDERSON IN DIALOGUE
By: Joel Anderson
Format: Electronic book text

List price: £18.99


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ISBN 10: 1780931182
ISBN 13: 9781780931180
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
Pub. date: 15 December, 2016
Series: Critical Powers
Description: This book develops a new concept of critical social theory, focused on diagnosing the misfit between growing demands for individual autonomy and the lagging reality of what individuals' actual autonomy-competence is.
Synopsis: Individuals in modern societies are frequently overwhelmed by choice, from employers, government agencies, utility providers, doctors and financial services. Joel Anderson argues that there is a tendency to misdiagnose the problem as 'too much complexity' or the 'inherent irrationality' of individuals. He outlines the idea of 'autonomy gaps' as an alternative frame of analysis, referring to the gap between the capacities for choice that are presupposed by various institutions or public policies, and the capacity that individuals actually have to make rational choices.This more dynamic understanding of a key social predicament of modern life requires reconfiguring our understanding of autonomy, clarifying the normative grounds for criticizing autonomy gaps and identifying a range of strategies for closing autonomy gaps or ameliorating their effects. Joel Anderson's new concept of critical social theory is discussed by interlocutors including Jurgen Habermas, Tom Shakepseare, Amy Allen, Peter John, Catriona MacKenzie and John Christman, closing with a response from Anderson.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Returns: Non-returnable
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