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dc.contributor.authorSCHMID, Lukas Nepomuk
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-27T10:43:15Z
dc.date.available2022-01-27T10:43:15Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.citationEuropean journal of philosophy, 2022, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 1378-1392en
dc.identifier.issn0966-8373
dc.identifier.issn1468-0378
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/73800
dc.descriptionPublished online: 24 January 2022en
dc.description.abstract"Freedom" is a fundamental political concept: contestations or endorsements of freedom-conceptions concern the fundamental normative orientation of sociopolitical orders. Focusing on "freedom," this paper argues that the project of bringing about emancipatory sociopolitical orders is both aided by efforts at engineering fundamental political concepts as well as required by such ameliorative ambitions. I first argue that since the absence of ideology is a constituent feature of emancipatory orders, any attempt at bringing about emancipation should leverage genealogical approaches in order to debunk existing ideological freedom-concepts, which can occur only by exposing the discursive functions these have come to serve for the (re-)production of dominant power relations. I then suggest that establishing and sustaining an alternative, ideology-free conception of "freedom" is a steeper task. Ensuring widespread uptake of any ameliorated concept is contingent on effective change in the relevant social environment. Where fundamental political concepts such as "freedom" are concerned, effective intervention in the relevant social environment requires radical sociopolitical change. But if such change can be brought about and enables the widespread uptake of an "improved" freedom-concept, the concept's content comes to reflect changed social facts, thereby stabilizing the particular emancipatory sociopolitical order which has newly arisen.en
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dc.publisherWileyen
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean journal of philosophyen
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.titleFreedom-amelioration, transformative change, and emancipatory ordersen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/ejop.12754
dc.identifier.volume30
dc.identifier.startpage1378
dc.identifier.endpage1392
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dc.identifier.issue4
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