Hegel associates 'subjective' freedom with various rights, all of which concern the subject's particularity, and with the demand that this particularity be accorded proper recognition within the modern state. I show that Hegel's account of subjective freedom can be assimilated to the 'positive' model of freedom that is often attributed to him because of the way in which the objective determinations of right (Recht) recognise the subject's particularity in the form of individual welfare. To this extent, the practical constraints to which individuals are subject in the modern state are not purely external ones, and the freedom which they enjoy within it is not merely subjective in kind. In exploring the role of certain practical forms of necessity in Hegel's account of civil society I show, however, that Hegel points to the existence of a group of people, the poor, who must be thought to lack subjective freedom, because they will experience the constraints to which they are subject as purely external ones. He also suggests the existence of a form of freedom that is merely subjective in kind, because it consists in a sense of absence of constraint that fails to reflect fully the practical forms of necessity that underlie civil society and constrain an individual's actions. The importance of the concept of necessity in Hegel's Philosophy of Right, as highlighted in the paper, demonstrates, moreover, that the emphasis on freedom found in recent interpretations of Hegel's social and political philosophy needs to be counterbalanced by greater recognition of the role played in it by this concept.
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After dispossession
Ethnographic approaches to neoliberalization
Oscar Salemink and Mattias Borg Rasmussen
subjective experiences are all connected to a redefinition, repackaging, and transformation of a variety of dispossessions that people around the world experience. “After dispossession” provides ethnographic accounts of the diverse ways to deal with
Theorizing “The Plunge”
(Queer) Girls’ Adolescence, Risk, and Subjectivity in Blue is the Warmest Color
Michelle Miller
: “Radical political change will come about only when new forms of subjectivity and sociality can be forged by thinking beyond the limits of what is already comprehensible” (2008: xiii, emphasis in original). By opening narrative possibilities, we create
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Mar 2017
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- 39–54 (16 total)
From In-Itself to Practico-Inert
Freedom, Subjectivity and Progress
Kimberly S. Engels
’s concept of in-itself in Being and Nothingness 2 to practico-inert in CDR and beyond accounts for many of the differences in the views of human subjectivity presented in his earlier and later works. By subjectivity, I mean the state of being a conscious
In Sartre Studies International
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- 01 Jun 2018
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- Research Article
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- 48–69 (22 total)
Jablonka et la question du sujet en sciences sociales
Le cas de Laëtitia ou la fin des hommes
Nathan Bracher
sujetsobjets. Qu’ils le veuillent ou non, ils ont donc affaire aux valeurs et à l’éthique, de par leur propre implication subjective irrévocable. Même en voulant éviter les excès et dérapages de l’idéologie et de l’arbitraire individuel, on ne peut pas aborder
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Dec 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 92–108 (17 total)
Pleasure and Dementia
On Becoming an Appreciating Subject
Annelieke Driessen
their subjectivity; they can no longer express themselves intelligibly, and are stripped of all possibilities to enjoy life (ibid.: 14). In line with Higgs and Gilleard, I argue that this imaginary is disabling in itself. In presenting dementia as a
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Mar 2018
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- Research Article
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- 23–39 (17 total)
Belonging
Comprehending Subjectivity in Vietnam and Beyond
Tine M. Gammeltoft
which subjectivities emerge out of the ways in which people are accompanied, committed, exposed, indebted, obliged, and submitted to one another (e.g., Dyring et al. 2017 ; Englund 2008 ; Ferguson 2013 ; Ingold 2016 ; Rodima-Taylor 2013 ; Sahlins
Fadi Amer
eclectic nature, however, this diversity tamed by the freedom to choose presents a radical knot embedded in its very understanding of subjectivity – a scepticism threatened with the looming danger of self-erasure. Accordingly, I shall also defend the
First as Tragedy, Then as Teleology
The Politics/People Dichotomy in the Ethnography of Post-Yugoslav Nationalization
Stef Jansen
of nationalism in the early 1990s are thus infrequent and at best formulaic. Ethnographers therefore rarely encounter people’s recollections of their own prewar or wartime nationalist subjectivity in terms of intentional action. Far more commonly
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 164–180 (17 total)
The temporality of illegality
Experiences of undocumented Latin American migrants in London
Ana Gutiérrez Garza
migrants’ subjectivities, I first draw on recent anthropological studies that have directed their attention toward the study of illegality and its effects on migrants’ social worlds. The work of Deborah Boehm (2012) , Joanna Dreby (2016) , and Sarah