Expansion of Autonomy

Georg Lukács wrote that “there is autonomy and ''autonomy.'' The one is a moment of life itself, the elevation of its richness and contradictory unity; the other is a rigidification, a barren self-seclusion, a self-imposed banishment from the dynamic overall connection.” Though Lukács'' concern was with the conditions for the possibility of art, his distinction also serves as an apt description of...