Foucault, Freedom and SovereigntyAshgate 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. |
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... (Derrida 1996, 219)Wemust therefore accept theinfinite risk of freedom: if freedom isnottobeviewed asan epiphenomenonof aparticular order, wemust presupposethe everpresent possibilityofits abuse. 'Freedom isfreedom for both.
... Derrida 1996). While both collectivism and individualism have historically been marked by the abduction of existenceby the diagram ofgovernment, this community of freedom, whose contours liealmost entirely in the future, would be ...
... Derrida. Theparadigm of messianic thought is definedby the Derridean gesture ofthe perpetual deferral of the promiseof freedom, democracy orjustice, which always remains'to come'.In contrast, Foucault's thought contains nothing ...
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Contents
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 | |