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 viii
... precisely because of Foucault's famous scepticism towards all grand narratives of emancipation that his work is exemplary as an affirmation of freedom that goes beyond its attribution to a certain 'perfect order'. While Foucault has on ...
... precisely because of Foucault's famous scepticism towards all grand narratives of emancipation that his work is exemplary as an affirmation of freedom that goes beyond its attribution to a certain 'perfect order'. While Foucault has on ...
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... precisely in the name of its acquisition in the 'bright future'. Simply put, any utopianism becomes conservative at the moment the utopian construction begins to be implemented. Instead of asking what form of order is most friendly to ...
... precisely in the name of its acquisition in the 'bright future'. Simply put, any utopianism becomes conservative at the moment the utopian construction begins to be implemented. Instead of asking what form of order is most friendly to ...
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... precisely insofar as it targets what we shall call the abduction of existence in the name of its 'genuine' liberation within a positive order. Our notion of abduction should be rigorously distinguished from the concept of repression in ...
... precisely insofar as it targets what we shall call the abduction of existence in the name of its 'genuine' liberation within a positive order. Our notion of abduction should be rigorously distinguished from the concept of repression in ...
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... precisely in order to retain their potential character. A discourse on freedom is therefore doomed from the outset to be inadequate to its object, since its object is not any concrete practice unfolding in the open space of freedom but ...
... precisely in order to retain their potential character. A discourse on freedom is therefore doomed from the outset to be inadequate to its object, since its object is not any concrete practice unfolding in the open space of freedom but ...
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... precisely the divorce of freedom from the discourse of the perfect order that renders freedom a political concept par excellence. Our focus on political freedom in this book is the very opposite of a reduction of freedom to the ...
... precisely the divorce of freedom from the discourse of the perfect order that renders freedom a political concept par excellence. Our focus on political freedom in this book is the very opposite of a reduction of freedom to the ...
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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