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The ideal of autonomous freedom dominates Western moral and political reflection. This essay argues that Henrik Ibsen’s play Hedda Gabler sets up a confrontation between two versions of the concept. Hedda Gabler tries to realize sovereign freedom to define the rule of her own life, whereas her female competitor, Thea Elvsted, skillfully navigates the male world to create a space for autonomous freedom and self-realization within it. This competition between the sovereign and the virtuoso thus stages a conflict within the idea of autonomy as a principle of freedom.

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The Sovereign and the Virtuoso: What Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler Tells Us About Autonomy

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    2026年

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  • Torbjörn Gustafsson Chorell

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The ideal of autonomous freedom dominates Western moral and political reflection. This essay argues that Henrik Ibsen’s play Hedda Gabler sets up a confrontation between two versions of the concept. Hedda Gabler tries to realize sovereign freedom to define the rule of her own life, whereas her female competitor, Thea Elvsted, skillfully navigates the male world to create a space for autonomous freedom and self-realization within it. This competition between the sovereign and the virtuoso thus stages a conflict within the idea of autonomy as a principle of freedom.