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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... of Impossible Objects: Biopolitics, Multitude, Empire Mangez votre Empire!: Counterproductivity and the Fulfilment of Power Conclusion: Why Want Freedom? Bibliography Index Preface This book was born out of a simple thought.
... of Impossible Objects: Biopolitics, Multitude, Empire Mangez votre Empire!: Counterproductivity and the Fulfilment of Power Conclusion: Why Want Freedom? Bibliography Index Preface This book was born out of a simple thought.
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Sergei Prozorov. Preface. This book was born out of a simple thought experiment. How can we define freedom? While political philosophy has offered us an impressive array of such definitions over millennia, it quickly becomes apparent that ...
Sergei Prozorov. Preface. This book was born out of a simple thought experiment. How can we define freedom? While political philosophy has offered us an impressive array of such definitions over millennia, it quickly becomes apparent that ...
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... thought experiment more than an amusing logical conundrum and redirects our thinking of freedom away from utopian ... Foucault's political thought, claiming that it is precisely because of Foucault's famous scepticism towards all grand ...
... thought experiment more than an amusing logical conundrum and redirects our thinking of freedom away from utopian ... Foucault's political thought, claiming that it is precisely because of Foucault's famous scepticism towards all grand ...
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... philosophy of Michel Foucault – a thinker whose work has had a singular importance in the political thought of the twentieth century in illuminating both the expropriation of freedom by governmental rationalities and the plenitude of ...
... philosophy of Michel Foucault – a thinker whose work has had a singular importance in the political thought of the twentieth century in illuminating both the expropriation of freedom by governmental rationalities and the plenitude of ...
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... Foucault's thought on freedom is of singular importance precisely insofar as it targets what we shall call the abduction of existence in the name of its 'genuine' liberation within a positive order. Our notion of abduction should be ...
... Foucault's thought on freedom is of singular importance precisely insofar as it targets what we shall call the abduction of existence in the name of its 'genuine' liberation within a positive order. Our notion of abduction should be ...
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