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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... as the relational structure of'with' iscertainly constitutive of our identity(and thus nocommunity isever merely a sum of ... asthe 'last instance'of freedom, its 'naturalsubject', but,as we shall discuss indetail below, penetrates the ...
... asthe appropriate strategy ofresistance tocontemporary global governance. Chapter 6 elaborates the pathways of resistance to biopolitical governance bycontrasting theFoucauldian assertion of the 'sovereign powerof life' with ...
... asthe seductive promiseof the rationalities of government: 'Theirony ofthis deployment [ofsexuality] is in havingus believe that our 'liberation'isin the balance.' (Foucault 1990a, 159)More generally, Foucault's philosophicalapproach is ...
... asthe effectof governmental practices and thus not anterior topower relations. 'Government increasingly impinges ... as the analystsof governmentality never fail to emphasise, the autonomyof the subject is notsimply asham, but the effect ...
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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 | |