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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... radical evil' thatwould destroy freedom fromwithin: '[w]ithout thepossibility of radical evil,ofperjury, and ofabsolute crime, there isno responsibility, no freedom,no decision.' (Derrida 1996, 219)Wemust therefore accept theinfinite ...
... radical hermeneutics' or'hermeneutics ofrefusal' (Caputo 1993, 2000) that denies the existenceof the Secret, but is notthereby consigned to positivism, but rather 'opensa depthof negativity' (Caputo 1993, 257) and affirms what Caputo ...
... radical affirmation of freedom in Foucault's thought that will be our point ofdeparture inthis study. Theliberal commentary on Foucault's work deniesthe very existence or thepossibility of a concept of freedomin his philosophical ...
... radical constructivism withregard to power arethus held todisqualify Foucault fromany discourseon freedom. Fromthisperspective, hislaterwritings onAncient Greek techniques ofselffashioning anddiscussions of freedom ina number ...
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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 | |