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
... logically invites the question of whether this subject must not retain the capacity to become free from these very qualities and attributes to remain genuinely free. As soon as we triumphantly conclude, on the basis of studious research ...
... logically invites the question of whether this subject must not retain the capacity to become free from these very qualities and attributes to remain genuinely free. As soon as we triumphantly conclude, on the basis of studious research ...
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... logically impossible to conceive of freedom apart from the form of order, so that, for instance, the question of the freedom of the subjects of a 'totalitarian'order may never even arise. Secondly, when it is linked to the form of order ...
... logically impossible to conceive of freedom apart from the form of order, so that, for instance, the question of the freedom of the subjects of a 'totalitarian'order may never even arise. Secondly, when it is linked to the form of order ...
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... logically ever-present question of a freedom from this very order. The discourse on freedom is thus reoriented from creating a 'freedom-friendly' order to inquiring into the possibilities of practicing freedom in orders that are, in ...
... logically ever-present question of a freedom from this very order. The discourse on freedom is thus reoriented from creating a 'freedom-friendly' order to inquiring into the possibilities of practicing freedom in orders that are, in ...
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... logically lead to abandoning the valorisation of the public/private distinction altogether (cf. Koselleck 1988): what is at stake is rather the affirmation of the irreducibility of human being to any social order and thus an ...
... logically lead to abandoning the valorisation of the public/private distinction altogether (cf. Koselleck 1988): what is at stake is rather the affirmation of the irreducibility of human being to any social order and thus an ...
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... logically precede any positive order of politics, which invites the question of its ontological status in relation to this positivity. This book will deal with this question extensively in an attempt to elaborate a Foucauldian ontology ...
... logically precede any positive order of politics, which invites the question of its ontological status in relation to this positivity. This book will deal with this question extensively in an attempt to elaborate a Foucauldian ontology ...
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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