Martiusheva A. Individual Autonomy in Contemporary Social Contexts: the Possibility of "Return of the Subject"

Autonomy in the Kantian sense of the word, which prevailed in philosophical discussions until the last third of the XX century, in the modern world becomes problematic one. Because the ability to establish the law for myself and the ability to follow it in today's dynamic society are faced with the problem of rigidity of this kind of autonomous will. Continually changing social configurations force individuals to abandon the law-governed autonomous behavior.However, in the absence of an alternative understanding of autonomy they risk becoming helpless puppets of the post-disciplinarytechnologies of governance. On the basis of after-postmodern non-repressive understanding of subjectivity we attempt to offer such an alternative understanding of individual autonomy in the given thesis. Unlike Kantian's ability to form one's own will, in the modern contexts, in our view, the ability to restructure one'sown will on the basis of reflective and creative perception of the experience of Othersadvanceson the foreground.Considering the will as based on the individual structure of values, autonomy could be understood as the ability to reflective, creative reintegration of individual value structures.