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- Title: Marina Oshana, Personal Autonomy in Society (Book Review)
- Author : Social Theory and Practice
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 184 KB
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Marina Oshana, Personal Autonomy in Society (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2006), xi + 190 pp. Marina Oshana has written a thoughtful and engaging book that sets out and defends her own novel account of autonomy, includes a rich discussion of the literature on autonomy, and also provides an informative review of related literature on individual freedom. Oshana begins with intuitions about personal autonomy and states that her task is to provide "an account of autonomy that best captures the concept the term is used to express" (1). This involves discussing the status an individual can have in society because she views autonomy as crucial to any individual in a social or political situation where there is a potential of significant coercion or manipulation. Her focus is thus theoretical, not applied; it is an attempt to provide a conceptual account of the status of adults who are bound by political, cultural, and moral frameworks. Given the Greek derivation of the word "autonomy" from auto (self) and nomos (rule), the most common understanding of autonomy has at the very least focused on self-rule or rules one sets for oneself, and one's self-directed authority over oneself and power to act on that authority. However, Oshana asks what kind of authority or power is needed for one to be judged to be autonomous.