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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... power and subjectivity – a site of what Foucault (1984b, 351) called historical ontology. In the more methodological sense, the diagram is the schematic description of this plane in its historically variable distribution of relations ...
... power and subjectivity – a site of what Foucault (1984b, 351) called historical ontology. In the more methodological sense, the diagram is the schematic description of this plane in its historically variable distribution of relations ...
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... power (1998) that we shall discuss at length in this book. For Agamben, the paradox of sovereign power is that it ... relations presents to us a myriad of agencies of power, busily (re)forming their objects so that nothing in principle ...
... power (1998) that we shall discuss at length in this book. For Agamben, the paradox of sovereign power is that it ... relations presents to us a myriad of agencies of power, busily (re)forming their objects so that nothing in principle ...
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... power relations. The Foucauldian critique of power relations, immanent to the social realm, does not stop, as liberalism does, at the individual as the 'last instance' of freedom, its 'natural subject', but, as we shall discuss in ...
... power relations. The Foucauldian critique of power relations, immanent to the social realm, does not stop, as liberalism does, at the individual as the 'last instance' of freedom, its 'natural subject', but, as we shall discuss in ...
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... power relations in the liberal governmental rationality and thus as wholly immanent to the positivity of social order. Finally, the more philosophical orientation of the Foucauldian scholarship draws on Foucault's writings on aesthetics ...
... power relations in the liberal governmental rationality and thus as wholly immanent to the positivity of social order. Finally, the more philosophical orientation of the Foucauldian scholarship draws on Foucault's writings on aesthetics ...
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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