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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... that is still insearchof itsowndiscourse. In our view, the reasonwhy this search is so frustratingly difficult isthe commitment of discourseson freedomtowhat we may term the illusionofa perfectorder. Even ifweagree that our contemporary ...
... that is widespread informally 'free' regimes and, as the historyof the twentieth century demonstrates, has frequently ledto the demiseof the'formal' freedom itself. Moreover, the abstractionof the concept offreedom from itspractice ...
... thatis absent inboth ideological and multiculturalist accounts, for whichfreedom is onlymeaningful as aninternalattribute ofa certainparticularistic order.Tospeak of universalism inrelation to Foucault'sthought iscertainly controversial ...
... that is intrinsically shared equally by allhuman beings. From this perspective, equalityis neither anterior to ... thatare wholly other, inthisvery affirmation. Conversely, however universal the experienceof freedom might be,its practice ...
... that is ultimately composed of 'with' rather than of 'being'. Weall are withothers only as(and by) ourselves, never formingan entity endowed with being aside from the part of our existencethat we devote to it.This isnot equivalent to ...
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 | |