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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... discourse, simultaneously marking itsradical insufficiency and rendering impossibleanyattempt atits successful completion. Thus, toremain faithfulto its ownspectre, freedom mustalways be thoughtas bothabsolute and undefinable ...
... discourse ofglobalisation, which incites usto become free by modelling our liveson theuniversalised economic rationality. Rigorously specifiedin termsof entrepreneurship, competitiveness, efficiency and flexibility, ourfreedom ...
... discourses thatwe setout tocriticise. A critique advanced inthe name of freedom alwaysrisks being inaudible inthewhite noiseof celebratory conceit, vacuous pledges andaustere threats, all invoking the sanctity offreedom. Whenthe ...
... discourse presupposesa certain measure of ourfreedom from this discourse, a certain remainderof subjectivity that remains untainted by our 'social construction'as political subjects. Freedom isthus necessarily implicatedin any act of ...
... visionsoffreedom as illusory or deceitful.Let uscall itthe ideologicaldiscourse on freedom. Alternatively, wemight findrefuge invarious formsof the multicultural discourse and argue thatwhile 'Western' freedom is indeed genuine.
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 | |