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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Dr Sergei Prozorov. Perhaps, the best exampleof this abuse of the notion of freedom is the staggeringly asinine decisionof certainAmerican patriotsto rename French fries 'freedom fries' in the light of the French opposition tothe Iraq ...
... the ontic structuresofeitherideology or culture. The ideologycritical discourse unveilsthe hypocrisy at workin contemporary political stratagems, whereby theidealof freedom is linked with theexercise of power, butinits affirmative task ...
... the 'liberaldemocratic freedom' of latemodern Western societies isto befound wanting, what these demands obfuscate is theirreducible heterogeneity between the form oforderand the concrete experienceof freedom, which can never besubsumed ...
Dr Sergei Prozorov. renouncefrom theoutset the possibility of any determinate answer to the questionof whatfreedom is and where itlies.As long asone givesa positive answer to the question of'whatmust a free subject be (do, say,desire) ...
Dr Sergei Prozorov. affirmation of the irreducibility ofhuman being toany social order and thus an irresolvable confrontation between humanity and authority. Insofar as this is a confrontation withthepublic authority (beitthe stateor ...
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 | |