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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... presupposes too much.Firstly, freedom is apriori linked toaformof orderas the only possible locus forits practice and,moreover, becomes an attribute of thatorder. Asa result, it becomes logically impossible to conceive offreedom apart ...
... presupposes thatunder any given socialorder theproblemof freedom would remain,if only as alogically everpresent question ofa freedomfromthis very order. The discourse on freedomis thus reoriented from creatinga 'freedomfriendly'order ...
... presupposes the permanent possibility tonegate any positive specification of freedom. Thus, when in thisstudy we approach freedom in termsof potentialityfor beingotherwise, we must, firstly, rigorously distinguish 'being otherwise' from ...
... presuppose taking exception fromany suchproject asthevery substance of freedom.At the sametime, Foucault's standpointrecalls AlbertCamus's understanding of revoltasan individual affirmation of common existence: 'I revolt, therefore we ...
... presuppose one's exit from any form of community, local orglobal, the rupture ofall social ties, the fragmentation of all unities. The universality that we speakof has nothing to dowith the reduction of the individual experienceof ...
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 | |