This title was first published in 2001: Against Autonomy reassesses Jean-Francois Lyotard's contribution to philosophy and theory, and explores how his work challenges the privileged position of the principle of autonomy in contemporary liberal democratic thinking, as seen in such diverse thinkers as Rawls, Rorty and Fukuyama. Curtis argues that the political models autonomy legitimates are inadequateA for thinking justice. Such models invariably promote self-legislation as the ground of freedom turning the subject away from its prior constitutionA by, and responsibility for, the Other. He...