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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... human desire for freedom? We may endlessly debate on theform ofpolitical order that best satisfiesthis desire ... existence. If there isa concept in politicaldiscourse that lacks any negative connotations, itmust befreedom. Onthe other ...
... human existence intoa project, even ifitisa project ofliberation. The twentieth centuryhas offered manifest evidenceof repressionin thenameof liberation and, judgingbythe present antiterrorist campaigns both domestically and ...
... human existence in accordance with acertain governmental rationality. While Agamben's sovereign seems toappearonthe sceneonly toretreat fromit,leaving its subjects in theperpetual apprehension ofhis presenceinhisabsence, Foucault's ...
... theexistence it has first captured and confined.In thismanner, human existence is recast as a project, endowedwith identity, subjected toauthority and granted a teleological destination. As weshall discuss in detail below, Foucault'skey ...
... humanity and authority. Insofar as this is a confrontation withthepublic authority (beitthe stateor 'civil society ... human existence thatmaywell be the object of practices of freedom but nevertheir foundation. Moreover, itisprecisely ...
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 | |