7 Feb 2016

There are no autonomous individuals without an autonomous society

The individual de jure cannot turn into the individual de facto without first becoming the citizen. There are no autonomous individuals without an autonomous society, and the autonomy of society requires deliberate and perpetually deliberated self-constitution, something that may be only a shared accomplishment of its members.

Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Modernity (Polity Press, 2012) p. 40

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