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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... SUBJECT 4 Ontological Extremism: Foucault, Schmitt and Sovereign Freedom The Other of Order: Sovereignty as a Transgressive Foundation 81 81 Appearance and Occultation: How the Diagram Becomes (Im)possible Whatever Sovereigns: Contents.
... SUBJECT 4 Ontological Extremism: Foucault, Schmitt and Sovereign Freedom The Other of Order: Sovereignty as a Transgressive Foundation 81 81 Appearance and Occultation: How the Diagram Becomes (Im)possible Whatever Sovereigns: Contents.
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... foundation for the new regimes, once again summoning the spectre of freedom, this time as a freedom from the self-proclaimed 'free societies'. Perhaps, the experience of postcommunism demonstrates most starkly the impossibility of ...
... foundation for the new regimes, once again summoning the spectre of freedom, this time as a freedom from the self-proclaimed 'free societies'. Perhaps, the experience of postcommunism demonstrates most starkly the impossibility of ...
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... foundation. Moreover, it is precisely the divorce of freedom from the discourse of the perfect order that renders freedom a political concept par excellence. Our focus on political freedom in this book is the very opposite of a ...
... foundation. Moreover, it is precisely the divorce of freedom from the discourse of the perfect order that renders freedom a political concept par excellence. Our focus on political freedom in this book is the very opposite of a ...
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... foundation of order, being nothing more than a subversive repetition, by individuals captured within a political order, of the sovereign act of the foundation of the latter. In terms of this parallel, political freedom refers to the ...
... foundation of order, being nothing more than a subversive repetition, by individuals captured within a political order, of the sovereign act of the foundation of the latter. In terms of this parallel, political freedom refers to the ...
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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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