Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons

This book argues that the received view of the distinction between freedom and power must be rejected because it rests on an untenable account of the discursive cognition that endows individuals with the capacity for autonomy, self-governed rationality.

Tuomo Tiisala is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Vienna, Austria. He has taught at the University of Helsinki, New York University Abu Dhabi, and New York University, where he was a Bersoff Faculty Fellow after earning his PhD from the University of Chicago.

Introduction 1. Structural Heteronomy 2. Replacing the Sovereign Subject with Savoir 3. Keeping It Implicit: A Defense of the Archaeology of Knowledge 4. Against Power? 5. Overcoming the Present Limits of the Necessary Epilogue