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Freedom Beyond Sovereignty Freedom Beyond Sovereignty Reconstructing Liberal Individualism ShaRon R. KRaUSe The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London Sharon R. Krause is professor in and chair of the Department of Political Science at Brown University. She is the author of Civil Passions and Liberalism with Honor. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2015 by The University of Chicago all rights reserved. Published 2015. Printed in the United States of america 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 1 2 3 4 5 ISBn- 13: 978- 0-226- 23469- 4 (cloth) ISBn- 13: 978- 0- 226- 23472- 4 (e- book) DoI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226234724.001.0001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Krause, Sharon R., author. Freedom beyond sovereignty : reconstructing liberal individualism / Sharon R. Krause. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBn 978-0-226-23469-4 (cloth : alkaline paper) — ISBn 978-0-226-23472-4 (e-book) 1. Individualism—United States. 2. Liberalism—United States. 3. agent (Philosophy) I. Title. JC574.2.U6K74 2015 320.510973—dc23 2014025468 a This paper meets the requirements of anSI/nISo Z39.48–1 992 (Permanence of Paper). This book is dedicated to the memory of my father, who so often showed me the way; and to Tayhas, who brings the light. ConTenTS aCKnowLeDgmenTS / ix InTRoDUCTIon / Reconstructing Liberal Individualism / 1 one / non- sovereign agency / 21 Two / agency, Inequality, and Responsibility / 58 ThRee / Vitalities of non-s overeign agency / 98 FoUR / what Is Freedom? / 133 FIVe / Plural Freedom / 165 ConCLUSIonS / Redeeming Freedom / 185 Notes / 195 Bibliography / 227 Index / 237 aCKnowLeDgmenTS There are very few things in life that we actually accomplish alone, or so this book argues, and the book itself embodies that truth. I am grateful to the friends, family, and colleagues as well as the conference panels, collo- quia, classes, and reviewers who have helped bring the book to fruition. my colleagues at Brown in the Political Science Department, as well as some from Philosophy, Religious Studies, Sociology, economics, and africana Studies, have generously shared their knowledge and commented on vari- ous parts of the project, and have made Brown a tremendously nourish- ing intellectual community. I am especially indebted in this regard to mark Blyth, Corey Brettschneider, Steve Bush, mark Cladis, Dave estland, alex gourevitch, Bonnie honig, Charles Larmore, Tal Lewis, glenn Loury, Tricia Rose, John Tomasi, and andre willis. For fruitful feedback and conversa- tion along the way I thank Brooke ackerly, Libby anker, Lawrie Balfour, Yvonne Chiu, Joshua Dienstag, Jason Frank, michael Frazer, Samantha Frost, Clarissa Rile hayward, Don herzog, nancy hirschmann, Leigh Jenco, David Kim, harvey mansfield, Patchen markell, John mcCormick, Tamara metz, michael morrell, emily nacol, Jenny nedelsky, Lorraine and Tom Pangle, Philip Pettit, Dennis Rasmussen, andy Sabl, annie Stilz, Christina Tarnopolsky, Chip Turner, Dana Villa, Drew Volmert, and Liz wingrove. The project profited immensely from the opportunity to present parts of it at Columbia, Cornell, Duke, harvard, Princeton, Reed, Stanford, Tulane, University of Chicago, University of Connecticut, University of houston, University of north Carolina, University of Virginia, UT austin, University of wisconsin, washington University St. Louis, wesleyan, Vanderbilt, and Yale as well as the Political Philosophy workshop and the Religion and Critical Thought Colloquium at Brown. I am grateful for those fruitful discussions. Thanks are also due to the members of my fall 2013 graduate seminar for

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