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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... 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.
... 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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... impossible any attempt at its successful completion. Thus, to remain faithful to its own spectre, freedom must always be thought as both absolute and undefinable, absolutely undefinable in positive terms. The same spectre of non ...
... impossible any attempt at its successful completion. Thus, to remain faithful to its own spectre, freedom must always be thought as both absolute and undefinable, absolutely undefinable in positive terms. The same spectre of non ...
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... impossible, this book argues that Foucault's historical ontologies of power, knowledge and ethics derive both their remarkable force and their intelligibility from the ontological affirmation of freedom that is utterly heterogeneous to ...
... impossible, this book argues that Foucault's historical ontologies of power, knowledge and ethics derive both their remarkable force and their intelligibility from the ontological affirmation of freedom that is utterly heterogeneous to ...
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... impossible. Indeed, not a single political regime in the contemporary world posits itself as self-consciously 'unfree'. Even when the despotic nature of a political regime is obvious to any observer, it is inevitably disavowed ...
... impossible. Indeed, not a single political regime in the contemporary world posits itself as self-consciously 'unfree'. Even when the despotic nature of a political regime is obvious to any observer, it is inevitably disavowed ...
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... impossible to conceive of freedom apart from the form of order, so that, for instance, the question of the freedom of the subjects of a 'totalitarian' order may never even arise. Secondly, when it is linked to the form of order, freedom ...
... impossible to conceive of freedom apart from the form of order, so that, for instance, the question of the freedom of the subjects of a 'totalitarian' order may never even arise. Secondly, when it is linked to the form of order, freedom ...
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