Foucault, Freedom and Sovereignty

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2013 M02 28 - 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.

 

Contents

Preface
AN AUSTERE
Foucaults Metaphysics
The Metohomonymy of Potential Being
Michael K and the Power
4Ontological
Power Potentiality and Freedom
The Sovereign Powerof Bare Life
Power
Why Want Freedom?
Bibliography
Index

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Sergei Prozorov is Professor of International Relations in the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Politics and Social Sciences, Petrozavodsk State University, Russia.

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