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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... Never Lives Elsewhere': The Diagram and its Outside Two (More) Concepts of Liberty: Towards a 'Properly'Negative Freedom 37 37 45 3 Beyond Identity: The Meto-homonymy of Potential Being S (S): 'A Happy Limbo of Non-Identity' Infamous ...
... Never Lives Elsewhere': The Diagram and its Outside Two (More) Concepts of Liberty: Towards a 'Properly'Negative Freedom 37 37 45 3 Beyond Identity: The Meto-homonymy of Potential Being S (S): 'A Happy Limbo of Non-Identity' Infamous ...
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... never be rejected as a fundamental value of human existence. If there is a concept in political discourse that lacks any negative connotations, it must be freedom. On the other hand, this very incontestability of freedom contrasts ...
... never be rejected as a fundamental value of human existence. If there is a concept in political discourse that lacks any negative connotations, it must be freedom. On the other hand, this very incontestability of freedom contrasts ...
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... never even arise. Secondly, when it is linked to the form of order, freedom begins to be conceived as an abstract endowment, a constitutionally guaranteed right, rather than a concrete experience or a practice. This reduction effaces ...
... never even arise. Secondly, when it is linked to the form of order, freedom begins to be conceived as an abstract endowment, a constitutionally guaranteed right, rather than a concrete experience or a practice. This reduction effaces ...
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... never went away, a 'free world'. Yet, how can a society or a 'world' be free? What we observe here is a deleterious effect of abstraction, noted by Isaiah Berlin (2002) in his seminal critique of 'positive liberty'. Once we no longer ...
... never went away, a 'free world'. Yet, how can a society or a 'world' be free? What we observe here is a deleterious effect of abstraction, noted by Isaiah Berlin (2002) in his seminal critique of 'positive liberty'. Once we no longer ...
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... never be subsumed under any set of normative criteria. The reason for abandoning the problematic of perfect order is that this very mode of discourse invariably sacrifices the concrete experience of freedom by turning human existence ...
... never be subsumed under any set of normative criteria. The reason for abandoning the problematic of perfect order is that this very mode of discourse invariably sacrifices the concrete experience of freedom by turning human existence ...
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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