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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... critical projecttothe proverbial figureofthe 'sovereign subject', which functions asa favourite'straw figure'in much ofcontemporary critical thought. Famously'decentred' from itsfoundational position inmodern metaphysics, this figure ...
... critical reading ofMichael Hardt and Antonio Negri's designfor the global democratic project ofthe multitude, we argue thatits fixationon sovereignty as atarget of resistance paradoxically leadstheir project to thereplication ofthe ...
... critical approaches are certainly plausible,they nonetheless obscurewhat weshall in this book call anontological dimensionof freedom, irreducible to the ontic structuresofeitherideology or culture. The ideologycritical discourse ...
... critical of.Abduction does not take an antecedent subject and then destroy ordeform its'natural' free state. Instead, this notion designatesa moment ofcapture, when the flux of human experience becomes arrested bythe installation of a ...
... critical discourse onfreedom, whichcan alltooeasilyfall into thetrap of pontificating on'real freedom'and therebyjointhe club of biopolitical experts of liberation that it seeksto oppose. In ordernot toreplicate this abductivegesture ...
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 | |