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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... Ontological Extremism: Foucault, Schmitt and Sovereign Freedom The Other of Order: Sovereignty as a Transgressive Foundation 81 81 Appearance and Occultation: How the Diagram Becomes (Im)possible Whatever Sovereigns: Contents.
... Ontological Extremism: Foucault, Schmitt and Sovereign Freedom The Other of Order: Sovereignty as a Transgressive Foundation 81 81 Appearance and Occultation: How the Diagram Becomes (Im)possible Whatever Sovereigns: Contents.
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... ontological affirmation of freedom that is utterly heterogeneous to any form of political order, any positive knowledge and any moral code. Through the reconstruction of what we shall call an austere ontology of freedom in Foucault's ...
... ontological affirmation of freedom that is utterly heterogeneous to any form of political order, any positive knowledge and any moral code. Through the reconstruction of what we shall call an austere ontology of freedom in Foucault's ...
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... ontological dimension of freedom, irreducible to the ontic structures of either ideology or culture. The ideology-critical discourse unveils the hypocrisy at work in contemporary political stratagems, whereby the ideal of freedom is ...
... ontological dimension of freedom, irreducible to the ontic structures of either ideology or culture. The ideology-critical discourse unveils the hypocrisy at work in contemporary political stratagems, whereby the ideal of freedom is ...
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... ontological feature of the human condition. Once freedom becomes conceived in this manner, it is no longer a question of human freedom in a society, but rather a 1 This tendency is sharply criticised in the 'new universalism ...
... ontological feature of the human condition. Once freedom becomes conceived in this manner, it is no longer a question of human freedom in a society, but rather a 1 This tendency is sharply criticised in the 'new universalism ...
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... ontological level, the diagram is conceived as a plane of constitution of historically specific forms of truth, power and subjectivity – a site of what Foucault (1984b, 351) called historical ontology. In the more methodological sense ...
... ontological level, the diagram is conceived as a plane of constitution of historically specific forms of truth, power and subjectivity – a site of what Foucault (1984b, 351) called historical ontology. In the more methodological sense ...
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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