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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Page vii
... our thought experiment more than an amusing logical conundrum and redirects our thinking of freedom away from utopian visions and abstract speculations towards what appears to be the most pressing political question: what Preface.
... our thought experiment more than an amusing logical conundrum and redirects our thinking of freedom away from utopian visions and abstract speculations towards what appears to be the most pressing political question: what Preface.
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Sergei Prozorov. what appears to be the most pressing political question: what are the possibilities of freedom that remain available to us irrespectively of the institutional structures of government that either claim to promote it or ...
Sergei Prozorov. what appears to be the most pressing political question: what are the possibilities of freedom that remain available to us irrespectively of the institutional structures of government that either claim to promote it or ...
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... appears to us today to be manifestly 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 ...
... appears to us today to be manifestly 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 ...
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... appear on the scene only to retreat from it, leaving its subjects in the perpetual apprehension of his presence-in-his-absence, Foucault's imagery of power relations presents to us a myriad of agencies of power, busily (re)forming their ...
... appear on the scene only to retreat from it, leaving its subjects in the perpetual apprehension of his presence-in-his-absence, Foucault's imagery of power relations presents to us a myriad of agencies of power, busily (re)forming their ...
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... appears to echo Camus in asserting that revolt, although always arising out of particular circumstances of subjection or oppression, affirms nothing particular but rather the possibility available to us all: 'It is through revolt that ...
... appears to echo Camus in asserting that revolt, although always arising out of particular circumstances of subjection or oppression, affirms nothing particular but rather the possibility available to us all: 'It is through revolt that ...
Contents
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AN AUSTERE ONTOLOGY OF FREEDOM | 23 |
THE RETURN OF THE SOVEREIGN SUBJECT | 79 |
Why Want Freedom? | 147 |
Bibliography | 153 |
Index | 167 |
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