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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... liberalism, (neo)conservatism, (neo)colonialism orwhat not. This polemical strategy isbestexemplified bytheendless confrontationbetween liberalismand Marxismduringmost of the twentieth century, whereby both sidesdenigrated each other's ...
... liberal democratic societies surely allowfor infiniteabuse that cannever be adequately insured against other than through the installation ofa dystopian police state.Yet, none ofthis appears to disqualify these actually existing ...
... liberal political philosophy.What isatstakeis definitely not the approach to the individual asa selfenclosed and ... liberalism does,at the individual asthe 'last instance'of freedom, its 'naturalsubject', but,as we shall discuss ...
... liberal governmental rationality and thus as wholly immanentto the positivity ofsocial order. Finally, the more philosophical orientation of theFoucauldian scholarship draws on Foucault's writingson aesthetics and transgression and ...
... Liberal Critiqueof Foucault Tospeak of aFoucauldian philosophy of freedom may appear controversial. After all, Foucault's work is frequently readas denying thevery possibility of freedom, both empiricallyin its thesis on the'carceral ...
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 | |