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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... Liberty: Towardsa 'Properly' Negative Freedom 3 Beyond Identity: The Metohomonymy of Potential Being S (S): 'A Happy Limbo of NonIdentity' Infamous Life: The TabulaRasaofWhatever Being Interlude 'To Be Out of the Camps': Michael K and.
... identity but is rather always 'beside itself' with the desire to transgress the limits of this identity. On thebasis ofthis reaffirmation of sovereignty, thisbook engages criticallywithtwo ofthe mostinfluential readings of Foucaultin ...
... identity politics' that quaintly findsliberation inone's confinement within the predicatesof a particular identity.1 However, theproblem lies not so much in particularism itself, but in theprior conceptualisation of freedom as ...
... identities anddeterminate moralobligations. Foucault's central insight is that despite beingastructure of authoritythe diagramisnota locus of transcendent negativitybut, onthe contrary,an immanent plane of positivity,of theplenitude of ...
... identity, subjected toauthority and granted a teleological destination. As weshall discuss in detail below, Foucault'skey insight is thatwhile inthis state of abduction individualscan be viewed andview themselves as free in the positive ...
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 | |