Caring Autonomy

Autorentext

Katri Lõhmus recently obtained her PhD in law from the University of Edinburgh. She was previously a legal counsel in the Constitutional Review Chamber of the Supreme Court of Estonia.

Klappentext

Argues that European human rights law must acknowledge that autonomy is dependent on the existence of trusting and caring relationships.

Zusammenfassung
Caring Autonomy considers the practice of the European Court of Human Rights and argues for a reconceptualisation of autonomy. The present individualistic understanding of autonomy is inadequate as it fails to acknowledge human interdependence and the importance of interpersonal trust and care for the development and practice of autonomy.

Inhalt

Introduction; 1. Choosing autonomy; 2. What informs the ECtHR? The origins of the concept of individual autonomy; 3. Expressions of individual autonomy; 4. Autonomy, individualisation and the emergence of the problem of trust; 5. Autonomy, law and trust; 6. Caring autonomy; Conclusion.