Freedom Beyond Sovereignty: Reconstructing Liberal Individualism

260 Pages·2015·0.955 MB·English

by  Sharon R. Krause

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
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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