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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... self, personal authenticity, deep seated 'human nature', 'repressed' sexuality, 'higherconscience', etc.2 The promise of 'true'freedom isrevealed inthese studiestobe a central stratagemin theabduction ofhuman subjects andtheir ...
... self prescribed inmodern ethics and thusto effect acertain 'dispossession' of the self, as opposed to the idealof selfpossession cultivated inmanifold forms of humanism. Wemay immediately observethat all these four dimensions connote a ...
... self expression in language on the 'orderof discourse' (1981). Irrespectively ofwhether Foucault's thesesonconfinement are viewedas legitimate, exaggeratedor outright false,theseauthors deny the possibility ofaFoucauldian affirmation of ...
... self fashioning thathad nothingtodo with other people (Rorty 1992, 330). 'I wishthat Foucaulthadbeen more willing to separate histworoles – more willingto separate his moral identity asa citizen from his search forautonomy ...
... self is tobea subjective being,it istoaspireto autonomy, it is to strive forpersonal fulfilment in itsearthly life, it istointerpret its reality and destiny asamatter of individual responsibility, itisto find meaning in existence by ...
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 | |