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Free Download Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy By Ken Gemes; Simon May
2011 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0199694680 | EPUB | 3 MB
The principal aim of this volume is to elucidate what freedom, sovereignty, and autonomy mean for Nietzsche and what philosophical resources he gives us to re-think these crucial concepts. A related aim is to examine how Nietzsche connects these concepts to his thoughts about life-affirmation, self-love, promise-making, agency, the ‘will to nothingness’, and the ‘eternal recurrence’, as well as to his search for a ‘genealogical’ understanding of morality. These twelve essays by leading Nietzsche scholars ask such key questions as: Can we reconcile his rejection of free will with his positive invocations of the notion of free will? How does Nietzsche’s celebration of freedom and free spirits sit with his claim that we all have an unchangeable fate? What is the relation between his concepts of freedom and self-overcoming? The depth in which these and related issues are explored gives this volume its value, not only to those interested in Nietzsche, but to all who are concerned with the free will debate, ethics, theory of action, and the history of philosophy.

Free Download The Urban Enigma: Time, Autonomy, and Postcolonial Transformations in Latin America
by Simone Vegliò
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1786613883 | 198 Pages | PDF/ePUB (True) | 6.8 MB

Free Download W. Royce Clark, "An Ethic of Trust: Mutual Autonomy and the Common Will to Live"
English | ISBN: 197870870X | 2021 | 432 pages | EPUB | 862 KB

Free Download CareNotes, "For Health Autonomy: Horizons of Care Beyond Austerity―Reflections from Greece "
English | ISBN: 1942173148 | 2020 | 144 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
"Here, the treatment of pathologies-such as cancers or viruses-is considered as important as dismantling the causes of pathologies, including the social problems of debt, homelessness, police violence, and isolation. We must grasp how the de-individualization of care, what we might refer to as the communization of care, is central to fighting state and capital’s racialized and gendered forms of abandonment."

Free Download Karl Axelsson, "Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and German Aesthetics "
English | ISBN: 0367347962 | 2020 | 302 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
This volume re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany. It provides a new account that connects aesthetic experience with morality, science, and political society. In doing so, it challenges long-standing teleological narratives that emphasize disinterestedness and the separation of aesthetics from moral, cognitive, and political interests.

Free Download Alice Chik, Naoko Aoki, Richard Smith, "Autonomy in Language Learning and Teaching: New Research Agendas"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1137529970 | PDF | pages: 122 | 1.3 mb
This book seeks to expand the research agendas on autonomy in language learning and teaching in diverse contexts, by examining the present landscape of established studies, identifying research gaps and providing practical future research directions. Based on empirical studies, it explores research agendas in five emerging domains: language learning and teaching in developing countries; social censure and teacher autonomy; learner autonomy and groups; learner autonomy and digital practice; and finally, learner autonomy and space. In doing so, it sheds new light on the impact of digital media, group dynamics and the application of ecological perspectives on learner autonomy. The contributors present a novel reconsideration of new learning affordances, and their discussion of spatial dimensions provides much needed expansion in the field. This book will have international appeal and provide an invaluable resource for students and scholars of second language learning and higher education, as well as teacher educators.

Free Download Peter Ramsay, "The Insecurity State: Vulnerable Autonomy and the Right to Security in the Criminal Law "
English | ISBN: 0199581061 | 2012 | 300 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The Insecurity State is a book about the recent emergence of a ‘right to security’ in the UK’s criminal law. The Insecurity State sets out from a detailed analysis of the law of the Anti-Social Behavior Order and of the Coalition government’s proposed replacement for it. It shows that the liabilities contained in both seek to protect a ‘freedom from fear’ and that this ‘right to security’ explains a lot of other recently enacted criminal offences. This book identifies the normative source of this right to security in the idea of vulnerable autonomy. It demonstrates that the vulnerability of autonomy is an axiomatic assumption of political theories that have enjoyed a preponderant influence right across the political mainstream. It considers the influence of these normative commitments on the policy of both the New Labour and the Coalition governments.

Free Download Luciano Baracco, "Indigenous Struggles for Autonomy: The Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua"
English | ISBN: 149855881X | 2018 | 246 pages | EPUB | 1382 KB
Indigenous Struggles for Autonomy: The Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua offers a broad and comprehensive analysis of Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast and the process of autonomy that was initiated in 1987 as part of a wider conflict resolution process during the years of the Sandinista revolution and has continued through to the present day. Over its 30 year period of development, the autonomy process on Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast can be seen as a crucible for the autonomous struggles of minority peoples throughout the Latin American continent. Autonomy on Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast remains highly contested, being simultaneously characterized by progress, setbacks, and violent confrontation within a number of fields and involving a multiplicity of local, national, and global actors. This experience offers critical lessons for efforts around the world that seek to resolve long-established and deep-seated ethnic conflict by attempting to reconcile the need for development, usually fostered by national governments through neo-extractivist policies, with the protection of minority rights advocated by marginalized minorities living within nation states and, increasingly, by intergovernmental organizations such as the United Nations and the Organization of American States. This book presents analyses that reveal the broad implications for the struggle for autonomy on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua, conducted by scholars with expertise in an array of disciplines including sociology, globalization theory, anthropology, history, socio-linguistics, cultural and postcolonial studies, gender studies, and political science.

Free Download Massimo Modonesi, "Subalternity, Antagonism, Autonomy: Constructing the Political Subject"
English | 2013 | pages: 225 | ISBN: 0745334059, 0745334067 | PDF | 2,9 mb
In this bold and innovative book, Massimo Modonesi weaves together theory and political practice by relating the concepts of subalternity, antagonism and autonomy to contemporary movements in Latin America and elsewhere.

Free Download Marina A. Sitrin, "Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina"
English | 2012 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 1780320493, 1780320507 | EPUB | 0,9 mb
In the wake of the global financial crisis, new forms of social organization are beginning to take shape. Disparate groups of people are coming together in order to resist corporate globalization and seek a more positive way forward. These movements are not based on hierarchy; rather than looking to those in power to solve their problems, participants are looking to one another. In certain countries in the West, this has been demonstrated by the recent and remarkable rise of the Occupy movement. But in Argentina, such radical transformations have been taking place for years. Marina Sitrin tells the story of how regular people changed their country and inspired others across the world.