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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... social views 2. Liberty 3. Sovereignty I.Title 320'.011 ISBN: 9780754649083 ISBN: 9781409495857 (ebkePUB) Library ofCongress CataloginginPublication Data Prozorov, Sergei. Foucault, freedom and sovereignty / by Sergei Prozorov.
... social construction'as political subjects. Freedom isthus necessarily implicatedin any act of negationof determined meanings, common senseand received wisdom, as thecapacity forour selfdetermination. Thus, if wecan discard ...
... social ordermay beillustrated by two possibleresponsesto a perception that there isalltoo little freedomin our'free societies' andeven less inour attempts to 'liberate'others. Firstly, facedwith the increasing deploymentof freedomas a ...
... social order, whose own origin andpresent operation might have littleto do withfreedom. Whileit is undoubtedly correct tocontest the deeply paradoxical idea of 'liberating' a country throughitsmilitary occupationor its subjection to ...
... social factory',in which ourpositive identities areceaselessly produced in accordance with specific governmental rationalities. Thus, abduction as a capture of existence must alsobe distinguished from the notion of abandonment ...
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 | |