Autonomy in the Limits of Recognition and Openness of the Social

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Abstract

[In Russian]

In the text the concept of autonomy in the modern social-theoretical
discussions including feminist is considered. In the first
part the reconstruction of I. Kant’s understanding of autonomy
as self-legislations of will is offered. Then the criticism of Kant’s
understanding of autonomy is proposed, on the one hand for its
monologicality (J. Habermas), on the other – for its accent on
the selfhood, which presupposes domination over the body and
others (M. Cook). Starting with both directions of criticism I suggest
to refuse self-sufficiency of the concept of autonomy and to
add such elements of interaction as consent and mutual acknowledgment.
Autonomy, consent and mutual acknowledgement
should be considered thus as elements of the structure of openness
of commune and simultaneously to supply and limit each
other. Such understanding of autonomy gives us an opportunity
at the concepts of modernity and democracy with which the autonomy
has always been historically connected.