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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... experience of postcommunism demonstrates most starkly the impossibility of securing or guaranteeing freedom by designing a perfect political order, in which everyone's desire for freedom would be satisfied. This impossibility makes our ...
... experience of postcommunism demonstrates most starkly the impossibility of securing or guaranteeing freedom by designing a perfect political order, in which everyone's desire for freedom would be satisfied. This impossibility makes our ...
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... experience. On the one hand, is there anything more self-evident and less contestable that the human desire for freedom? We may endlessly debate on the form of political order that best satisfies this desire, discuss the relative ...
... experience. On the one hand, is there anything more self-evident and less contestable that the human desire for freedom? We may endlessly debate on the form of political order that best satisfies this desire, discuss the relative ...
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... experience or a practice. This reduction effaces the possibility of problematising the very sense of 'unfreedom' that is widespread in formally 'free' regimes and, as the history of the twentieth century demonstrates, has frequently led ...
... experience or a practice. This reduction effaces the possibility of problematising the very sense of 'unfreedom' that is widespread in formally 'free' regimes and, as the history of the twentieth century demonstrates, has frequently led ...
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... experiences of subjection and liberation and is rather inscribed in the structure of the political system and its rationalities of government. When we so insistently link freedom to the form of government, we need not be unpleasantly ...
... experiences of subjection and liberation and is rather inscribed in the structure of the political system and its rationalities of government. When we so insistently link freedom to the form of government, we need not be unpleasantly ...
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... experience of freedom and its replacement with an abstract principle of political order. It is the unease about the reduction of freedom to a political project undertaken in its name that motivates our engagement with the political ...
... experience of freedom and its replacement with an abstract principle of political order. It is the unease about the reduction of freedom to a political project undertaken in its name that motivates our engagement with the political ...
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