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The Life of Freedom / Das Leben der Freiheit
Form and Reality of Autonomy
It is a common idea that free self-determination means not being governed by one's living nature. However, as Thomas Khurana shows in his fundamental study following in the tradition of Kant and Hegel, we cannot leave it at such an opposition of freedom and life. The form and reality of human freedom can only be understood by falling back on the concept of life. However, this does not mean reducing practical freedom to natural freedom. Rather, we gain a deeper understanding of the inner...
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It is a common idea that free self-determination means not being governed by one's living nature. However, as Thomas Khurana shows in his fundamental study following in the tradition of Kant and Hegel, we cannot leave it at such an opposition of freedom and life. The form and reality of human freedom can only be understood by falling back on the concept of life. However, this does not mean reducing practical freedom to natural freedom. Rather, we gain a deeper understanding of the inner tensions and challenges of modern freedom, a critical theory of our second nature.
2017, 550 pages