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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... present operation might have little to do with freedom. While it is undoubtedly correct to contest the deeply paradoxical idea of 'liberating'a country through its military occupation or its subjection to a certain socioeconomic order ...
... present operation might have little to do with freedom. While it is undoubtedly correct to contest the deeply paradoxical idea of 'liberating'a country through its military occupation or its subjection to a certain socioeconomic order ...
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... present conditions of subjection, what are the possibilities of freedom available to us?' This question presupposes that under any given social order the problem of freedom would remain, if only as a logically ever-present question of a ...
... present conditions of subjection, what are the possibilities of freedom available to us?' This question presupposes that under any given social order the problem of freedom would remain, if only as a logically ever-present question of a ...
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... present anti-terrorist campaigns both domestically and internationally, our century will provide more examples of this possibility. Foucault's thought on freedom is of singular importance precisely insofar as it targets what we shall ...
... present anti-terrorist campaigns both domestically and internationally, our century will provide more examples of this possibility. Foucault's thought on freedom is of singular importance precisely insofar as it targets what we shall ...
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... present a plethora of gaudy and shocking examples of individuals, who, rather than being abandoned by power, are ... presents to us a myriad of agencies of power, busily (re)forming their objects so that nothing in principle should ...
... present a plethora of gaudy and shocking examples of individuals, who, rather than being abandoned by power, are ... presents to us a myriad of agencies of power, busily (re)forming their objects so that nothing in principle should ...
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... present a new 2 See Rose 1990; Brigg 2001; Rimke 2000; Triantafillou and Nielsen 2001; Marinetto 2003; Rankin 2001; Edwards 2002; Edwards et al. 2001; Salskov-Iversen 2000. definition of freedom alongside other existing definitions but ...
... present a new 2 See Rose 1990; Brigg 2001; Rimke 2000; Triantafillou and Nielsen 2001; Marinetto 2003; Rankin 2001; Edwards 2002; Edwards et al. 2001; Salskov-Iversen 2000. definition of freedom alongside other existing definitions but ...
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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