@inbook{6c81b5c1cb3f470e8aba4d3aec2d92df,
title = "Political Philosophy and the Primacy of Agency",
abstract = "In his political philosophy, Peter Winch was pursuing two themes, one of which is more explicit and more conventional than the other. His first theme was the critique of classical social contract theory. His second theme is best characterised as the primacy of agency over spectatorship. This long-term philosophical commitment is distinct from another central theme for Winch, his emphasis on particular cases. In ethics and politics, the perspective of agency implies understanding how an individual may be {\textquoteleft}called to agency{\textquoteright} by some course of events.",
keywords = "Peter Winch, Wittgenstein, legitimitet, samh{\"a}llsfilosofi, handlingsfilosofi, Peter Winch, Political philosophy, Authority, Wittgenstein, agency, ethics",
author = "Olli Lagerspetz",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-40742-1_6",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-030-40742-1",
series = "Nordic Wittgenstein Studies",
publisher = "Springer, Cham",
pages = "85--102",
editor = "Michael Campbell and Lynette Reid",
booktitle = "Ethics, Society and Politics",
}