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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... Foucauldian: The Freedomof Unfaithful Interpretation PART 1BEING BESIDE ITSELF: AN AUSTERE ONTOLOGY OF FREEDOM 1 Unhappy Positivism: Is There a Foucauldian Freedom? Whatis Thereto Liberate? The LiberalCritique of Foucault The Subject of ...
... Foucauldian critiqueof biopolitical rationalities ofgovernment, we shall offer an alternative pathwayof resistance tocontemporary global governance that consistsin the refusal of thebiopolitical investment of our existence and seeksto ...
... Foucauldian powerare never abandonedbut ratherpermanently abducted by myriad governmental agencies, simultaneously confined in therestricted domains of powerand rendered productive inaccordance withtheir rationalities. Thisform of power ...
... Foucauldian freedom isexhausted by a valorisation of private creativity (Rorty 1992; Wolin 1994),we shall rather argue thata Foucauldian freedom consists in the confrontation withthe socialorder that targets thevery distinction between ...
... Foucauldian ontology of freedom thatposits freedom asboth anterior andexterior to anyform ofpositive order, functioningasits singularly paradoxical 'slippery foundation' that simultaneously makes possible both its establishment and its ...
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 | |