In" Freedom Beyond Sovereignty, " Sharon R. Krause challenges the widely held assumption that human agency is a kind of personal sovereignty, the capacity for self-determination or control over one s action. She argues that this conception misses an essential social dimension of individual agency, to be able to have an impact on the world that one can recognize as one s own. Agency is more than an exclusively internal capacity of a personwhat Arendt and others have called willingit also intimately involves how our actions ...
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In" Freedom Beyond Sovereignty, " Sharon R. Krause challenges the widely held assumption that human agency is a kind of personal sovereignty, the capacity for self-determination or control over one s action. She argues that this conception misses an essential social dimension of individual agency, to be able to have an impact on the world that one can recognize as one s own. Agency is more than an exclusively internal capacity of a personwhat Arendt and others have called willingit also intimately involves how our actions are viewed and responded to by those around us. Krause contends that we must move beyond the myth of sovereignty if we are to understand the failed freedom of those who are marginalized by inequality or discrimination and grasp the scope of our own responsibility for social change. A fundamental reconstruction of liberal individualism, "Freedom Beyond Sovereignty "enables us to see human action, personal responsibility, and the meaning of liberty in a totally new light. "
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