![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I interrogate these claims not only by building on existing and extensive critiques that have problematized the emancipatory claims of democratic political projects, but also by examining understandings of freedom that are left out or excluded – quite specifically, non-liberal understandings. Liberal freedom is based on two common assumptions: first, that freedom is a progressive, external pursuit, which is owned or possessed second, related to the first, that freedom originates or is accessed through the consciously exerted will of a finite, thinking, individual subject. 3 Rather, my intention is to pursue a philosophical inquiry into the common assumptions on which liberal freedom in the context of human rights is based, and how these become the basis of unfreedom. I do not attempt to provide a comprehensive account of liberal freedom, an elusive and paradoxical concept that has also already been the subject of extensive dispute and debate. ![]() This chapter delineates how the concept of liberal freedom, which is central to the pursuit of human rights, is structured and articulated within what I metaphorically describe as the fishbowl. Of these chains, though its links glitter in the sun In truth that which you call freedom is the strongest ![]()
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