autonomous subject

collocation in English

meaningsofautonomousandsubject

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autonomous
adjective
uk
/ɔːˈtɒn.ə.məs/
us
/ɑːˈtɑː.nə.məs/
independent and having the power to make your ...
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subject
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsʌb.dʒekt/
us
/ˈsʌb.dʒekt/
the thing that is being discussed, considered, ...
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(Definition ofautonomousandsubjectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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But there was a price to pay for this emancipation of man asautonomoussubjectand of the world as landscape.
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The result is a tendency to relegate the problem of mimesis to a secondary position in order to establish a strict dichotomy between theautonomoussubjectand the external event.
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The human being as anautonomoussubjecthas the lifelong task to harmonize the processes of social integration and personal individualization.
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Unlike modernism, postmodernism does not have faith in master narratives of history or culture or even the self as anautonomoussubject.
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As forms of biopower, these latter work to increasingly displace regulatory competence onto the morally responsible,autonomoussubjectthat the state increasingly seeks to forge.
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How will they reconcile a sense of themselves as individual autonomous subjects with the experience of the control exercised over them by their handlers?
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Treaties are the key, for they presume two or more autonomous subjects capable of entering into a contract.
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In dialogue, persons perceive themselves as and act as conscious autonomous subjects capable of using appropriate linguistic means to convey their communicative intentions.
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The novel also questions the dichotomous relationship between the writer, as a modernautonomoussubject, and the storyteller, as an already disappeared part of the collective experience.
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Nineteenth-century masculine autobiographers inscribe themselves within their texts as autonomous subjects free from the constraints of any social context.
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