Autonomy and Social Interaction

Kupfer, H., Joseph; Joseph H. Kupfer

ISBN 10: 0791403467 / ISBN 13: 9780791403464

Published by State Univeristy of New York Press, Albany, NY, 1990

About this Item

224 + ix pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Marks on bottom edge and back cover. Pictures of actual copy -not displayed here!- available upon request.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Autonomy and Social Interaction
• Publisher: State Univeristy of New York Press, Albany, NY
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791403467
• ISBN 13: 9780791403464
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: © 1990 State Univeristy of New York
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research
  • Social Studies & Sciences, Sociology, Social Work
  • Philosophy

About this title

Synopsis

This book makes a distinctive contribution to the growing discussion of autonomy. As the ability to determine one's life in both thought and action, autonomy is foundational among our many and varied values. Other philosophical treatments tend to emphasize the significance of autonomy for moral theory or institutional arrangements such as legal, political, or economic power structures. Kupfer, however, focuses on the context of social relations and interactions in which autonomous living occurs. He handles autonomy and social interaction reciprocally, so that the significance of each for the other is drawn out. In addition, key themes are threaded throughout, such as the nature of dependency, self-concept and self-knowledge, and authority.

About the Author

Joseph H. Kupfer is Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University. He is the author of Experience as Art: Aesthetics in Everyday Life, also published by SUNY Press.