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Freely Associated Production as a Political Ideal

  • Tully Rector

    Tully Rector, postdoctoral researcher in philosophy at Utrecht University. In 2019 he received his PhD in philosophy from Freie Universität Berlin, and was an IRC fellow at the Exzellenzcluster SCRIPTS—Contestation of the Liberal Script. He works on problems at the intersection of political philosophy, social theory, and political economy. His present project is a normative theory of the multinational corporation and the system of production it controls and administers. At Utrecht he teaches courses on ethics and public policy, global justice, and other topics.
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From the journal Paragrana Volume 32 Issue 1

Abstract

This paper offers a brief account and defense of freely associated production as a political ideal. I discuss its conceptual structure, specifying what is meant by free association in terms of economic production, the sense in which it is a value for political order, and its approximate place in an historical lineage of reflection on freedom. Given that our economic arrangements are constitutively determined by law and public policy, and involve relations of governing power, the values that legal authority must subserve bear directly on the productive sphere. One of those values – arguably the highest – is relational freedom. Reigning structures of production violate its demands. Without understanding the ways in which that violation occurs, we cannot effectively address some of our most urgent social crises.

About the author

Tully Rector

Tully Rector, postdoctoral researcher in philosophy at Utrecht University. In 2019 he received his PhD in philosophy from Freie Universität Berlin, and was an IRC fellow at the Exzellenzcluster SCRIPTS—Contestation of the Liberal Script. He works on problems at the intersection of political philosophy, social theory, and political economy. His present project is a normative theory of the multinational corporation and the system of production it controls and administers. At Utrecht he teaches courses on ethics and public policy, global justice, and other topics.

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https://doi.org/10.1515/para-2023-0020

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  1. Frontmatter
  2. Zur Einführung: Freiheit im planetarischen Raum des 21. Jahrhunderts
  3. I. Perspektiven im 21. Jahrhundert
  4. Freiheitsrechte, Freiheitspflichten
  5. Politische Freiheit – Überlegungen im Anschluss an Adorno
  6. Freedom and Heteronomy in the Anthropocene
  7. Die strangulierte Freiheit im globalisierten Neoliberalismus
  8. Die Freiheit nach dem Tod
  9. II. Planetarische Kontexte
  10. Von der Freiheit zur Befreiung, eine iberoamerikanische Perspektive
  11. Individuum und Freiheit in Luhmanns systemtheoretischer Sicht
  12. Liberté et communauté en Islam
  13. Freedom: An African Perspective
  14. Entangled Notions of Freedom and Dependence
  15. III. Bildung zur Freiheit
  16. Freedom, Democracy and Science
  17. Freiheit und Entanglement: Kulturelle Resilienz als relationale Bildungstheorie
  18. Über Freiheit – im pädagogischen Sinn
  19. IV. Gesellschaftliche Sphären
  20. Recht und Freiheit – Ein juristischer Blick
  21. Sport und Freiheit
  22. Literatur ist Freiheit
  23. V. Technologien und Märkte
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  27. La liberté à corps perdu
  28. Autorinnen und Autoren
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