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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... nature of a political regime is obvious to any observer, it is inevitably disavowed rhetorically by the regime in question as an indicator of some mysterious 'true freedom', thus demonstrating that even as freedom may be denied in ...
... nature of a political regime is obvious to any observer, it is inevitably disavowed rhetorically by the regime in question as an indicator of some mysterious 'true freedom', thus demonstrating that even as freedom may be denied in ...
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... natural state of humanity. Once this utopia acquires its topos and becomes a political project, it is capable of enormous sacrifices of freedom precisely in the name of its acquisition in the 'bright future'. Simply put, any utopianism ...
... natural state of humanity. Once this utopia acquires its topos and becomes a political project, it is capable of enormous sacrifices of freedom precisely in the name of its acquisition in the 'bright future'. Simply put, any utopianism ...
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... natural' free state. Instead, this notion designates a moment of capture, when the flux of human experience becomes arrested by the installation of a structure of authority, which sets limits to the infinite possibilities available to a ...
... natural' free state. Instead, this notion designates a moment of capture, when the flux of human experience becomes arrested by the installation of a structure of authority, which sets limits to the infinite possibilities available to a ...
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... renounce their actual mode of existence in the project of liberating their 'true' self, personal authenticity, deep-seated 'human nature', 'repressed' sexuality, 'higher conscience', etc.2 The promise of 'true' freedom Introduction 7.
... renounce their actual mode of existence in the project of liberating their 'true' self, personal authenticity, deep-seated 'human nature', 'repressed' sexuality, 'higher conscience', etc.2 The promise of 'true' freedom Introduction 7.
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... nature with regard to every positive form of order. Never content with its confinement to the private realm, freedom always engages with order in its totality, transcending its internal demarcation of the public and the private. If we ...
... nature with regard to every positive form of order. Never content with its confinement to the private realm, freedom always engages with order in its totality, transcending its internal demarcation of the public and the private. If we ...
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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