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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... global project of emancipation. This disappointment has little to do with the widely perceived failure of whatever is meant by 'democratic reforms' in post-Soviet states, but rather results from the way the very affirmation of freedom ...
... global project of emancipation. This disappointment has little to do with the widely perceived failure of whatever is meant by 'democratic reforms' in post-Soviet states, but rather results from the way the very affirmation of freedom ...
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... global democratic project of the multitude, we argue that its fixation on sovereignty as a target of resistance paradoxically leads their project to the replication of the features of the very Empire it seeks to resist. Instead ...
... global democratic project of the multitude, we argue that its fixation on sovereignty as a target of resistance paradoxically leads their project to the replication of the features of the very Empire it seeks to resist. Instead ...
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... global emancipation has been delivered to us in a strange form of the discourse of globalisation, which incites us to become free by modelling our lives on the universalised economic rationality. Rigorously specified in terms of ...
... global emancipation has been delivered to us in a strange form of the discourse of globalisation, which incites us to become free by modelling our lives on the universalised economic rationality. Rigorously specified in terms of ...
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... global promotion of Western liberal freedom is both violent in relation to recipient societies and has dangerous boomerang effects on Western 'free societies' themselves. However, we can only articulate this criticism in the form of an ...
... global promotion of Western liberal freedom is both violent in relation to recipient societies and has dangerous boomerang effects on Western 'free societies' themselves. However, we can only articulate this criticism in the form of an ...
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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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