Gabriela Basterra
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Is freedom our most essential belonging, the intimate source of self-mastery, an inalienable right? Or is it something foreign, another that constitutes subjectivity, a challenge to our notion of autonomy? To Basterra, the subjectivity we call free embodies a relationship with an irreducible otherness that at once exceeds it and animates its core. Tracing Kant's concept of freedom from the Critique of Pure Reason to his practical works, Basterra elaborates...