New Interdisciplinary Perspectives on and Beyond Autonomy

To what extent is autonomy under threat today and how should these threats to autonomy be analysed? The essays in this book range over economics, politics, technology, philosophy, feminism and literature to assess the present state and future prospects of one of modernity’s foundational concepts and one of our most cherished values.

Christopher Watkin is Australian Research Council Future Fellow in European Languages at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His recent books include French Philosophy Today (2016), Michel Serres: Figures of Thought (2020) and Biblical Critical Theory (2022). You can find him on the web at christopherwatkin.com, and on Twitter @DrChrisWatkin.

Oliver Davis is Professor of French Studies at Warwick University, UK. He is the author of Jacques Rancière (2010), editor of Rancière Now (2013) and co-author, with Tim Dean, of Hatred of Sex (2022), among other works. He serves as Executive Editor of Modern & Contemporary France. He is currently researching the political stewardship of psychedelics.