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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... hermeneutic sense of interpretationthat Foucaultfound soobjectionable: 'If interpretation isa neverending task, itissimply because 'IRevolt, Therefore We Are': The Universalityof Political Freedom OnBeing Foucauldian: The Freedomof ...
... hermeneutics of suspicion'that posits theexistence of deeper hidden meanings: 'Idonot question discoursesabout their silentlyintended meanings, but about the fact and theconditions of their manifest appearance; notaboutthe contents ...
... hermeneutics that Foucault derides in his frequent criticisms of commentary (seee.g. Foucault 1976, xv–xix;1981 ... hermeneutics' or'hermeneutics ofrefusal' (Caputo 1993, 2000) that denies the existenceof the Secret, but is notthereby ...
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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 | |