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heteronomous /het·er·on·o·mous/ (het?er-on´ah-mus) 1. in biology, subject to different laws of growth; specialized along different lines. 2. in psychology, subject to another's will.
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| As the French philosopher Jacques Ranciere has observed, this denigration of the aesthetic ignores the fact that the system of art as we understand it in the West--the "aesthetic regime of art" inaugurated by Friedrich Schiller and the Romantics and still operative to this day--is predicated precisely on a confusion between art's autonomy (its position at one remove from instrumental rationality) and heteronomy (its blurring of art and life). As the text makes clear, the epidemic functions as a necessary cleansing device that precedes societal change in that it not only brings to light the limitations of oppressive ideologies, power structures, and agencies but also unites a people in the struggle against subjugation and heteronomy. Such heteronomy would be a diminishment of autonomy, and thus, for Kant, a diminishment of both personhood and liberty. |
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