Foucault, Freedom and SovereigntyRoutledge, 2016 M04 15 - 180 pages Against the prevailing interpretations which disqualify a Foucauldian approach from the discourse of freedom, this study offers a novel concept of political freedom and posits freedom as the primary axiological motif of Foucault's writing. Based on a new interpretation of the relation of Foucault's approach to the problematic of sovereignty, Sergei Prozorov both reconstructs ontology of freedom in Foucault's textual corpus and outlines the modalities of its practice in the contemporary terrain of global governance. The book critically engages with the acclaimed post-Foucauldian theories of Giorgio Agamben and Antonio Negri, thereby restoring the controversial notion of the sovereign subject to the critical discourse on global politics. As a study in political thought, this book will be suitable for students and scholars interested in the problematic of political freedom, philosophy and global governance. |
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... Agamben's seminal theses on sovereign power and 'bare life' do not imply a wholesale dispensation with sovereignty but rather its reappropriation by the subject of bare life itself in the confrontation with the positive rationalities of ...
... Agamben's seminal theses on sovereign power and 'bare life' do not imply a wholesale dispensation with sovereignty but rather its reappropriation by the subject of bare life itself in the confrontation with the positive rationalities of ...
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... Agamben's account of sovereign power (1998) that we shall discuss at length in this book. For Agamben, the paradox of sovereign power is that it fully applies itself only in not applying, in suspending its own application through an ...
... Agamben's account of sovereign power (1998) that we shall discuss at length in this book. For Agamben, the paradox of sovereign power is that it fully applies itself only in not applying, in suspending its own application through an ...
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... Agamben (1993b, 1998, 1999) has restored the concept of potentiality, crucial to the philosophy of antiquity but subsequently cast into oblivion, to the contemporary philosophical discourse. As we shall argue in detail in Chapter 3 ...
... Agamben (1993b, 1998, 1999) has restored the concept of potentiality, crucial to the philosophy of antiquity but subsequently cast into oblivion, to the contemporary philosophical discourse. As we shall argue in detail in Chapter 3 ...
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... Agamben's perspective, always simultaneously a 'potentiality for not being', so that the 'otherwise' in question refers not merely to any positive predicates of an identity, but to being itself as irreducibly potential. Thus, the ...
... Agamben's perspective, always simultaneously a 'potentiality for not being', so that the 'otherwise' in question refers not merely to any positive predicates of an identity, but to being itself as irreducibly potential. Thus, the ...
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... (Agamben 1999, 183) Thus, a discourse on freedom must refuse the conventional blackmail gesture, whereby an act that most of us would consider outright evil is demonstrated to be manifestly free so that a moralising critic could ...
... (Agamben 1999, 183) Thus, a discourse on freedom must refuse the conventional blackmail gesture, whereby an act that most of us would consider outright evil is demonstrated to be manifestly free so that a moralising critic could ...
Contents
Is There a Foucauldian Freedom? | |
Foucaults Metaphysics | |
The Metohomonymy of Potential Being | |
Michael K and the Power | |
Foucault Schmitt and Sovereign | |
Power Potentiality and Freedom | |
The Sovereign Power | |
How to Empty out the Enemys Power | |
Counterproductivity and the Fulfilment | |
Why Want Freedom? | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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abduction actual affirmation of freedom Agamben autoimmunity autonomy Bartleby becomes Berlin biopolitical investment biopolitical production biopower camps Carl Schmitt concept concrete freedom condition of possibility constitutive contemporary contingent contrast critique deconstruction Deleuze democracy Derrida diagram discourse on freedom emancipatory Emphasis Empire entirely ethics excess experience exterior force form of order Foucauldian Foucault’s critics Foucault’s thought foundation Giorgio Agamben global governmental Hardt and Negri heterogeneous historical ontologies homo sacer human existence ibid immanent impossible insofar irreducible liberal locus logically messianic Michael Michael Hardt Michael K Michel Foucault multitude necessarily negative liberty neoliberal nonetheless normative notion Ojakangas one’s oneself ontological ontology of freedom perfect order philosophy plane of immanence positive positive liberty potentiality power relations practices of freedom precisely presupposes Prozorov pure question radical rationalities refusal remains resistance sense singular Slavoj Zizek society sovereign decision sovereign power sovereign subject sovereignty and biopolitics space structure transcendence transgression valorisation Zizek