The Subject of FreedomIs freedom our most essential belonging, the intimate source of self mastery, an inalienable right? Or is it something foreign, an other that constitutes subjectivity, a challenge to our notion of autonomy? To Basterra, the subjectivity we call free embodies a relationship with an irreducible otherness that at once exceeds it and animates its core. Tracing Kants concept of freedom from the Critique of Pure Reason to his practical works, Basterra