About the Book:
The inviolability of the individual in the present age rests largely upon the firm belief that every individual is autonomous and, therefore, free. Autonomy thus grounds our claim for freedom. The book presents the three broad trends of constructing autonomy amidst the landscape of Western thought through the philosophical frameworks of Kant, Sade, and Nietzsche. In doing so, it explores the distinct meanings of human freedom that ensue from them.

About the Author of the Book:

P.G. Jung is a faculty member of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Bombay. His area of research and publications explore the historical tracing of philosophical concepts and the problems concerning the philosophy of language and values. He is the co-editor of Cultural Ontology of the Self in Pain (Springer, 2016), Teaching in Unequal Societies (Bloomsbury, 2020), and the co-author of Understanding Money: Philosophical Frameworks of Monetary Value (Routledge, 2022).

About the Reviewer:

T.V. Madhu is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calicut. He is a PhD (and M.Phil) from the University of Hyderabad. His research interests include the philosophy of self and the other, the phenomenology of embodiment, the question of identity and alterity, political philosophy, and post-Marxism. He is author of the books Nava Marxist Samoohya Vimarshanam (New Marxist Social Criticism), Njan Enna (A)bhaavam (Ego-[Un]consciousness), Vachanavum Mamsavum (Word and Flesh), and Marxinoppam Marxinusesham (With Marx and After Marx): Dialogues with Nizar Ahmed, and editor of the book Marx Vayanakal (Marx Readings) and the special issue of the journal Indian Philosophical Quarterly themed "Theorizing the Body".