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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... OF FREEDOM 1 Unhappy Positivism: Is There a Foucauldian Freedom? Whatis Thereto Liberate? The LiberalCritique of Foucault The Subject of theDiagram: Freedomin theStudies of Governmentality ConcreteFreedom: The Resistance of a Living ...
... of such definitions overmillennia, itquickly becomes apparent thatanypositive definition of freedom demonstrates itsown ... offreedom continues tohaunt its discourse, simultaneously marking itsradical insufficiency and rendering ...
... offreedom, this time asafreedom from theselfproclaimed 'free societies'. Perhaps,the experience of postcommunism demonstrates moststarkly the impossibility of securing or guaranteeing freedom bydesigning aperfect political order, in ...
... of reclaiming its centralposition but rather reasserting itself at the limitof every political orderas a paradigm ofthe subject of freedom,a beingthat is irreducible to any positive identity but is rather always 'beside itself' with the ...
... of 'negative' and 'positive' freedom, invent countless new definitions of freedom and even provocatively proclaim thelack orperversion of freedom in our own societies,but adiscourse against freedom appears to us today to be manifestly ...
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 | |