Caring Autonomy

Caring Autonomy

European Human Rights Law and the Challenge of Individualism

Lohmus, Katri

Cambridge University Press

04/2015

260

Dura

Inglês

9781107081772

15 a 20 dias

Caring Autonomy considers the practice of the European Court of Human Rights and argues for a reconceptualisation of autonomy. The present individualistic understanding of autonomy is inadequate as it fails to acknowledge human interdependence and the importance of interpersonal trust and care for the development and practice of autonomy.
Introduction; 1. Choosing autonomy; 2. What informs the ECtHR? The origins of the concept of individual autonomy; 3. Expressions of individual autonomy; 4. Autonomy, individualisation and the emergence of the problem of trust; 5. Autonomy, law and trust; 6. Caring autonomy; Conclusion.