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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... Identity: The Meto-homonymy of Potential Being S (S): 'A Happy Limbo of Non-Identity' Infamous Life: The Tabula Rasa of Whatever Being 53 53 60 Interlude 'To Be Out of the Camps': Michael K and the Power of Pure Refusal 69 PART 2 ...
... Identity: The Meto-homonymy of Potential Being S (S): 'A Happy Limbo of Non-Identity' Infamous Life: The Tabula Rasa of Whatever Being 53 53 60 Interlude 'To Be Out of the Camps': Michael K and the Power of Pure Refusal 69 PART 2 ...
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... identity but is rather always 'beside itself' with the desire to transgress the limits of this identity. On the basis of this reaffirmation of sovereignty, this book engages critically with two of the most influential readings of ...
... identity but is rather always 'beside itself' with the desire to transgress the limits of this identity. On the basis of this reaffirmation of sovereignty, this book engages critically with two of the most influential readings of ...
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... identity politics' that quaintly finds liberation in one's confinement within the predicates of a particular identity.1 However, the problem lies not so much in particularism itself, but in the prior conceptualisation of freedom as an ...
... identity politics' that quaintly finds liberation in one's confinement within the predicates of a particular identity.1 However, the problem lies not so much in particularism itself, but in the prior conceptualisation of freedom as an ...
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... identities and determinate moral obligations. Foucault's central insight is that despite being a structure of authority the diagram is not a locus of transcendent negativity but, on the contrary, an immanent plane of positivity, of the ...
... identities and determinate moral obligations. Foucault's central insight is that despite being a structure of authority the diagram is not a locus of transcendent negativity but, on the contrary, an immanent plane of positivity, of the ...
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... identity, subjected to authority and granted a teleological destination. As we shall discuss in detail below, Foucault's key insight is that while in this state of abduction individuals can be viewed and view themselves as free in the ...
... identity, subjected to authority and granted a teleological destination. As we shall discuss in detail below, Foucault's key insight is that while in this state of abduction individuals can be viewed and view themselves as free in the ...
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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