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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... bythe installation of a structure of authority, which sets limits to the infinite possibilities available to ahuman beingand installs an economy ofinjunctions and prohibitions that fosters certain possibilities andproscribes others ...
... bythe mechanismsof power.Quarantine operations during epidemics, the compilation ofdossiers ondelinquents, campaigns against children's masturbation, etc.– Foucault's writings create an impressionofan endlessvertigoof governmental ...
... bythe demarcation of a zoneof 'negative liberty'. While Foucault's interest intheethics of care oftheself andthe aesthetics ofexistence (1990b, 1990c) has led many to believe that a Foucauldian freedom isexhausted by a valorisation of ...
... by the experience of the reversal offamiliar categories andthe externalisation ofthe most interior.By the sametoken ... byThe Archaeology of Knowledge (1989) seeks tomake availableto thoughtthe experienceof difference that is not ...
... bythe postAlthusserian Frenchpolitical thought(e.g.Alain Badiou (2003)and Jacques Ranciere (1995)), the deconstructionist postMarxism ofErnesto Laclauand Chantal Mouffe (1985) and the Lacanian Marxism of Slavoj Zizek (1999, 2003, 2004a) ...
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 | |