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Reactualising Emancipation in Contemporary Ethical Discourse
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Reactualising Emancipation in Contemporary Ethical Discourse

Edited By: Silvia Pierosara

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What does emancipation mean in the contemporary moral and political landscape? From what can we free ourselves? This collection investigates emancipation through the eyes of the ethicist, re-examining the concept within different philosophical traditions.

Nowadays, emancipation evokes scenarios of an acquired freedom, and is closely linked to autonomy. Emancipation as liberation and freedom imposes a reflection on the conditions…
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Nowadays, emancipation evokes scenarios of an acquired freedom, and is closely linked to autonomy. Emancipation as liberation and freedom imposes a reflection on the conditions in which we live, as well as a question concerning what people can free themselves from and what is not possible to liberate oneself from. This collection investigates the possibility of relating to emancipation through the eyes of the ethicist. What does emancipation mean in the contemporary moral and political landscape? How is emancipation possible, and from and towards what can humankind aspire to emancipate? Which are the unattended promises of emancipation? Where, when, and to whom can one speak of emancipation? Assuming a clear ethical and moral standpoint, the contributions collected here reply to such questions, firstly by re-semantising this word and then by re-placing it within different philosophical traditions.

Silvia Pierosara (PhD in Philosophy and Theory of Human Sciences) is Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Macerata, Italy. Her research interests include theories of recognition, foundations and applications of narrative ethics, universalism and contextualism, transcendentality and historicity, critical theories of justice, moral autonomy, relational autonomy, narrative autonomy, history of ethics and moral philosophy, and critical philosophies of history including progress, memory, and nostalgia. She is the author of several monographs and articles, among which are Autonomia in relazione. Attraverso l’etica contemporanea, Per un’autonomia narrativa. Etica, storia, educazione, and ‘Progress, emancipation, hope: Rethinking critical theory through memories as counternarratives’.

Silvia Pierosara, Carla Danani, Luigi Alici, Alessandra Papa, Fabiola Falappa, Jorge Monteso_Ventura, Andrej Bozic, Carlo Chiurco, Silvia Dada, Roberto Mancini, Donatella Pagliacci, Vicky Iakovou, Marco Manca, Francesco Miano, Flavia Stara, Luca Alici

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  • ISBN: 1-0364-0486-2
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-0486-4
  • Date of Publication: 2024-05-23

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  • ISBN: 1-0364-4342-6
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-4342-9
  • Date of Publication: 2025-02-17

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  • ISBN: 1-0364-0487-0
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-0487-1
  • Date of Publication: 2025-02-17
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  • "Ever since the Enlightenment, emancipation has been a central topic of philosophical discussion, one whose main content, contours and conditions of fulfillment are hotly debated. This book puts together new exciting research on this topic. Through its many-sided approach, the book reconstructs the history of the concept of emancipation from Roman law, going through the Enlightenment and 19th- and 20th-century philosophy, to today’s promises and challenges of emancipation, such as its relation with care or the contested goal of human enhancement. Drawing from the history of philosophy, critical theory, continental philosophy, feminism and other philosophical domains, this book makes an important contribution to the field not only by analyzing the semantics of emancipation, but also because it presents a critical assessment, untangling true and false emancipations, and explores aspects such as its spatial dimension. Emphasizing its ethical core, the book also investigates emancipation’s relation with autonomy, utopia, and the emancipatory virtues."
    - Gonçalo Marcelo University of Coimbra

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