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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... theDiagram: Freedomin theStudies of Governmentality ConcreteFreedom: The Resistance of a Living Being 2 Transcendence within Immanence: Foucault's Metaphysics of Absence'OneNever Lives Elsewhere': The Diagram and its Outside Two (More) ...
... the Diagram Becomes (Im)possible Whatever Sovereigns: Power, Potentiality and Freedom 5Beyond theBiopolitical Terrain: The Sovereign Powerof Bare Life Between Zoeand Bios: Men and Citizens in the Stratagemsof Power Beyond Human Rights ...
... thediagram isconceived asaplane of constitutionof historically specific forms oftruth, power and subjectivity –asiteofwhat Foucault (1984b, 351) called historical ontology. In the more methodological sense, the diagram is the schematic ...
... diagramisnota locus of transcendent negativitybut, onthe contrary,an immanent plane of positivity,of theplenitude of historically constituted formsof life. The diagram should therefore beconceived asa'social factory',in which ...
... the diagram ofgovernment, this community of freedom, whose contours liealmost entirely in the future, would be markedby the blissful absence ofany project, to which human existencemust be sacrificed. In themeantime, the task for today's ...
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 | |