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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... Resistance of a Living Being 2 Transcendence within Immanence: Foucault's Metaphysics of Absence'OneNever Lives Elsewhere': The Diagram and its Outside Two (More) Concepts of Liberty: Towardsa 'Properly' Negative Freedom 3 Beyond ...
... resistance all too quickly became appropriated asapositive foundation for the new regimes, onceagain summoningthe spectre offreedom, this time asafreedom from theselfproclaimed 'free societies'. Perhaps,the experience of postcommunism ...
... resistance tocontemporary global governance that consistsin the refusal of thebiopolitical investment of our existence and seeksto reduce all powertoits purely formal structure of sovereignty.In this manner, practices of resistance ...
... of resistance to Western interventionism are routinely referred toas 'enemies offreedom' (ibid., 2),it appears that theterm has acquireda new, rather esoteric meaning that only the electfew can comprehend.In this case, we maybefree ...
... enablingresistance to every determinate answer given to the question of freedom. 'I. Revolt,. Therefore. We. Are': The. Universality. of. Political. Freedom. Theabandonment ofthe concern with designinga perfect political order, inwhich ...
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 | |