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autonomy /au·ton·o·my/ (aw-ton´ah-me) the state of functioning independently, without extraneous influence.auton´omous autonomy (  ·tˑ·n ·mē),n a principle of medical ethics according to which a person should respect the rights of other individuals to freely determine their own choices and decisions. |
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But the overall trend was clear; feeling that they had more common interests with the Dukes of Burgundy, the urban political elite gave up the autonomist aspirations they had defended during the fourteenth century. Politically, such action takes the form of autonomist, separatist and irredentist movements. Nevertheless, Negri's art-world acclaim was much in evidence at Documenta II--for which he had contributed, with Hardt, an essay to one of its "platforms" on democracy--no less than at last summer's Venice Biennale, where the phantom presence of Empire was all-pervasive (and hardly a stone's throw from Padua, where the autonomist movement with which Negri was associated in the '70s committed some of its most violent acts). |
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