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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... practices of resistance do not lead to our empowerment as newly emancipated subjects, but rather to our symbolic destitution as subjects of the positive order that we inhabit, which simultaneously enhances our potentiality for being ...
... practices of resistance do not lead to our empowerment as newly emancipated subjects, but rather to our symbolic destitution as subjects of the positive order that we inhabit, which simultaneously enhances our potentiality for being ...
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... practice, it may 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 ...
... practice, it may 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 ...
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... practice a similar abandonment in relation to freedom, if only because the very belief in our capacity to abandon a formerly valued object of discourse presupposes a certain measure of our freedom from this discourse, a certain ...
... practice a similar abandonment in relation to freedom, if only because the very belief in our capacity to abandon a formerly valued object of discourse presupposes a certain measure of our freedom from this discourse, a certain ...
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... practices that have conspicuously little to do with it, we are led to pronounce this discourse on freedom as a mere sham and embark on a necessarily polemical road of articulating what a 'real' freedom might be in opposition to its ...
... practices that have conspicuously little to do with it, we are led to pronounce this discourse on freedom as a mere sham and embark on a necessarily polemical road of articulating what a 'real' freedom might be in opposition to its ...
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... practices, which thereby begin to function as criteria, against which the suitability of 'freedom'might be measured. If this 'cultural relativism' is taken to its logical conclusion, freedom might begin to mean absolutely anything, as ...
... practices, which thereby begin to function as criteria, against which the suitability of 'freedom'might be measured. If this 'cultural relativism' is taken to its logical conclusion, freedom might begin to mean absolutely anything, as ...
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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