A Matter of Choice represents a substantive discussion of the concept of
choice in human affairs, taken against the backdrop of ethics and
religion. Drawing on a range of contributions, Hodgkiss demonstrates in
this study that, though often not the primary issue under consideration,
a concern with choice has featured continually in human thought from the
Hellenistic world of the Stoics to the post-Kantian environment of
modern philosophy. Moreover, he argues that the social and historical
dimension of choice has been consistently underplayed, and that the role
of choice in modern economic and political developments is
underestimated at our peril. Through a critical account of the
literature, Hodgkiss adeptly diagnoses the insufficiency of the current
conception of the choice-making sovereign individual in the contemporary
liberal-democratic capitalist context and outlines the implications of
this philosophy for the choice-maker.