"In her interdisciplinary book, Nancy Yousef addresses the emergence of autonomy, demonstrating that the ideal was beset from its beginnings by profound concerns over the possibilities and grounds of human relations and interdependence. Isolated...
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Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt / Zentrale
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"In her interdisciplinary book, Nancy Yousef addresses the emergence of autonomy, demonstrating that the ideal was beset from its beginnings by profound concerns over the possibilities and grounds of human relations and interdependence. Isolated Cases draws attention to the strain of intersubjective anxieties and longings hidden within representations of the individual as self-sufficient and self-defining. Among the writers and thinkers Yousef treats at length are John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Mary Shelley, and William Wordsworth."--Jacket Locke's loneliness -- Rousseau's autonomous beast: natural man as imaginary animal -- Natural man in the wild: The feral child as philosophical subject -- "Unfathered vapour": The imagination of origins in The prelude -- Fantastic form: Frankenstein and philosophy -- Mill alone
