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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... 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 Life: The Tabula Rasa of Whatever Being 53 53 60 Interlude 'To Be ...
... 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 Life: The Tabula Rasa of Whatever Being 53 53 60 Interlude 'To Be ...
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... concept in political discourse that lacks any negative connotations, it must be freedom. On the other hand, this very incontestability of freedom contrasts starkly with the everyday experience of our lives, in which freedom is ...
... concept in political discourse that lacks any negative connotations, it must be freedom. On the other hand, this very incontestability of freedom contrasts starkly with the everyday experience of our lives, in which freedom is ...
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... concept of democracy? ''Democracy' is more and more a false issue, a notion so discredited by its predominant use that, perhaps, one should take the risk of abandoning it to the enemy.' (Zizek 2004c) In fact, it would hardly be possible ...
... concept of democracy? ''Democracy' is more and more a false issue, a notion so discredited by its predominant use that, perhaps, one should take the risk of abandoning it to the enemy.' (Zizek 2004c) In fact, it would hardly be possible ...
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... concept of freedom from its practice enables its infinite abuse, as it loses all reference to the concrete experiences of subjection and liberation and is rather inscribed in the structure of the political system and its rationalities ...
... concept of freedom from its practice enables its infinite abuse, as it loses all reference to the concrete experiences of subjection and liberation and is rather inscribed in the structure of the political system and its rationalities ...
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... concept of repression in the various versions of humanist essentialism that Foucault (1970, 1976, 1990a) was strongly critical of. Abduction does not take an antecedent subject and then destroy or deform its 'natural' free state ...
... concept of repression in the various versions of humanist essentialism that Foucault (1970, 1976, 1990a) was strongly critical of. Abduction does not take an antecedent subject and then destroy or deform its 'natural' free state ...
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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